Arabic → English
Arabic to English, generated by inverting the WordNet pivot through the Arabic WordNet and enriched with the Arabic section of the English Wiktionary. Includes an inflection index.
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ar-en.zip 4.3 MB · StarDict · CC-BY-SA-4.0
Install on your e-reader
Unzip and copy the folder onto your device so that you end up with:
koreader/data/dict/ar-en/ar-en.ifo
Restart KOReader. This dictionary includes an inflection index, so looking a word up exactly as it appears in a book works.
Coverage
How many of the most common words in the source language this dictionary can actually resolve, counting words reached through the inflection index.
| Frequency band | Found | As headword | Via inflection | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| top 1,000 | 739 | 418 | 321 | 73.9% |
| top 5,000 | 3,453 | 1,585 | 1,868 | 69.06% |
| top 10,000 | 6,432 | 2,661 | 3,771 | 64.32% |
| top 50,000 | 22,958 | 7,382 | 15,576 | 45.92% |
Measured against OpenSubtitles 2018 Arabic top 50k (hermitdave/FrequencyWords).
What is in an entry
| Entries with a real translation | 24,330 (84.21%) |
| Entries with only a definition, no translation | 4,562 |
| Entries with a usage example | 11,361 (39.32%) |
| Entries with inflected forms | 18,462 (63.9%) |
| Entries with pronunciation | 14,550 |
| Senses | 82,544 |
| Mean definition length | 37.4 characters |
| Mean translations per entry | 5.25 |
An entry counted as “definition only” is one where the source wordnet knows the concept but has no word for it in the target language. These are shipped because a definition still helps a reader, and counted separately because calling them translations would be dishonest.
Sources and licence
| Source | Licence | Credit |
|---|---|---|
omw-arb | CC-BY-SA-3.0 | Arabic WordNet (AWN v2), via Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.4 |
pwn30 | WordNet-3.0 | Princeton University WordNet 3.0 |
wikt-ar-en | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | English Wiktionary (Arabic entries) via kaikki.org (wiktextract) |
Bundled under CC-BY-SA-4.0, the least restrictive licence that covers every source above. Each source’s own terms are reproduced in the ATTRIBUTION file inside the download.