Translate English letters to Arabic

Translate English letters to Arabic script in the box below: type your text in English, keep Standard Arabic or pick a dialect, press Translate. You get the Arabic with full harakat and a Latin line that shows how it sounds, so you can check the result against what you typed. Free, no account, nothing stored.

Translate English letters to Arabic: two different jobs

Some people want an English sentence turned into Arabic. Others already have Arabic typed in Latin letters, the way friends text (kifak, shu akhbarak), and want it in Arabic script. The box on this page is a translator, so it is built for the first job: it translates what you type and shows the Arabic, its harakat and its pronunciation. For a first name, which is spelled by sound rather than translated, the name in Arabic tool is the right page.

Latin-typed Arabic is not a separate mode. If you paste a chat line, the model reads it as something to translate. The Arabic you get back is a translation, not a letter-by-letter conversion, so check it against the pronunciation line before you send it.

How English letters map to Arabic letters

Arabic has 28 letters and three short vowel marks. English letters go to them like this; the examples show the Latin spelling the tool prints and the Arabic you will see. Where English has a sound Arabic lacks, the nearest letter is used. P becomes ب, v becomes ف, a hard g becomes ج in Egypt and غ or ك elsewhere.

Long vowels are proper letters in Arabic, so aa, ee and oo always appear in the script. The short a, i, u are only marks, and most Arabic text drops them. Every result here keeps them, with a toggle to hide them.

Arabizi digits when you type

If you write Arabic in Latin letters yourself, you will meet the digit system of text messages, where each number stands in for a letter it resembles. These are the seven in common use and the Arabic letter behind each:

In its own output the tool keeps only 3 and 7 and the apostrophe, so that khalas and qalb stay readable for someone who has never texted in Arabic. The full letter table with sounds is on the transliteration Arabic to English page.

ALA-LC or chat style when you type

ALA-LC is the dotted academic system (ʿ, ḥ, ṣ, ā). If you have a word in that form from a book, strip the dots and bars and type it plainly: ḥabīb becomes habeeb or 7abeeb; the model understands both. Chat style is simply the plain version, and it is what the tool prints under every result. The one place where the academic form helps is a library search or a citation, where the exact Arabic spelling must be recoverable.

Google and English to Arabic transliteration

Google Translate writes a romanized line under the Arabic it produces, which answers the question for Standard Arabic. It does not put vowel marks on the Arabic, has no dialect pronunciation, and offers no way to say that the text should be Egyptian or Levantine. This page keeps the harakat on and lets you pick the dialect before translating, so the Latin line matches the way the reader actually speaks.

Limits

Up to 1,000 characters per request and a free daily limit for the whole site; no account, nothing stored. The Arabic is produced by an AI model and may spell a foreign word differently than you expected, especially names and brands. Compare the pronunciation line with what you meant, and for a name use the dedicated tool. There is no upload of documents or photos and no voice input.

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