Iraqi Arabic to English translator

Iraqi Arabic to English on this page: paste the message you got from Baghdad, in Arabic script or in chat letters like shlonak, and read it in English. The page also returns your text with harakat and a transliteration, so you can see how it is said. Free, no account, nothing stored.

What you get on this page

• Direction set to Arabic to English with Iraqi as the dialect of your text, so akuu, maakuu and shloonich are read as Iraqi, not as mistakes.
• Three lines back: the English, your Arabic with vowel marks, and a transliteration with the Iraqi g and ch sounds.
• Free, 1,000 characters per request, one daily limit for the whole site, nothing stored.

Iraqi Arabic to English: what the three lines tell you

Paste the text and press Translate. The first line is the meaning in English. The second is the message you pasted with full harakat; Iraqis never type the vowels, so this line is how you learn that شلونك reads shloonak and not shalunak. The third is the Latin transliteration, which you can copy into your reply if the two of you chat in Latin letters.

Messages often mix script, Latin letters and English words; paste all of it. For a Latin-letter message (shlonich 7abibti, aku shi) keep Iraqi selected and check the voweled Arabic that comes back. Iraqi chat spelling has no fixed rules; if the harakat line shows a word you did not expect, retype that word with the usual digits.

Chat words you will see in Iraqi messages

Ten words that carry most Iraqi chats, with the spelling people use in Latin letters and what they mean in context.

Iraqi chat spelling

Iraqis who type in Latin letters use the common Arabic chat digits, 3 for ayn, 7 for the hard h, 5 for kh, 9 for the emphatic s, plus two things you will not see from Egypt: ch for the softened kaf (shlonich) and g for qaf in words like gal, he said. Because th and dh are pronounced, thneen and hadha keep their h. The transliteration line on this page follows the same conventions, and the transliteration page lists every letter.

Accuracy and limits

An AI language model produces the English. Everyday messages about family, plans and work come out well; proverbs, jokes and southern or Mosul words are where it stumbles, and Latin-letter input is less reliable than script. Use the voweled line as a check and ask the sender when something reads oddly. Not for legal, medical or official text. Up to 1,000 characters per request, a daily free limit for the whole site, nothing stored. To reply, use English to Iraqi Arabic; the Iraqi Arabic translator page explains the dialect, and Arabic to English handles Standard Arabic text.

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