Arabic to Urdu Translator

Urdu is primarily spoken in Pakistan where it is the national language and lingua franca, and in India, particularly in the Hindi-Urdu belt regions including Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and Hyderabad. It is also spoken by immigrant communities in the Middle East, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.

Uses the Perso-Arabic script, known as Nasta’liq. The script is written from right to left and consists of 38 letters, accommodating sounds specific to Urdu as well as Arabic and Persian phonetics.

Features a significant number of phonemes, including several aspirated consonants and nasal sounds, with phonetic influences from Arabic and Persian.

Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order predominates. Urdu grammar is highly inflected with extensive use of conjugation and declension, mirroring the structure of other Indo-Iranian languages.

Contains a significant number of loanwords from Arabic, Persian, and English, reflecting various periods of conquest and colonial rule.

Part of the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-European language family, closely related to Hindi, with which it shares a base vocabulary and grammatical features, differing largely in script and formal vocabulary.

Uses a modified form of the Perso-Arabic script adapted for Indo-Aryan phonology, known as Nasta’liq, which is also used for writing Persian and Pashto in South Asia.

The adoption of the Nasta’liq script for Urdu developed during the time of the Mughal Empire when Persian was the court language. Urdu evolved as a vernacular form of Hindustani spoken in the army camps (‘Urdu-e-Mualla’) of the Mughals.

Approximately 230 million people speak Urdu as a first or second language.

Arabic is primarily spoken in the Arab world, which includes countries in the Middle East and North Africa. It is an official language in 26 countries such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates, among others. It is also widely used as a liturgical language by Muslims worldwide.

Uses the Arabic script, which is written from right to left. The alphabet consists of 28 letters: ا, ب, ت, ث, ج, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, ه, و, ي.

Features a range of 28 phonemic consonants and 6 or 8 phonemic vowels, depending on dialect. Notable for its guttural and emphatic sounds.

Verb-subject-object (VSO) order predominates in Classical Arabic, but subject-verb-object (SVO) can also be common in modern dialects. Features a rich system of conjugation and declension.

Arabic has borrowed words extensively from languages such as Persian, Turkish, and French, especially in the modern era. Conversely, Arabic has been a significant source of vocabulary for languages like Spanish, Portuguese, and Swahili.

Part of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

Primarily uses the Arabic script. The script has several calligraphic styles used historically and in contemporary practice, including Naskh, Thuluth, and Kufic.

The Arabic script developed from the Nabataean alphabet of the Aramaic script around the 4th century AD and was standardized in the Islamic era.

Native speakers number approximately 310 million and 422 million in total.