# Arabic Translation Services

> Arabic translation services for documents from Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS.

https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Arabic translation services for documents from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Morocco and the other Arab countries, to and from English, Portuguese, Spanish and other languages. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS; for Brazil it can be a sworn translation into Portuguese, valid nationwide.

- Arabic from the Middle East and North Africa, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS or sworn for use in Brazil
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Arabic is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Arabic is an official language in more than 20 countries, from Morocco on the Atlantic to Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Yemen in the Gulf, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Iraq in the Levant, and Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco in Africa. It has more than 300 million speakers and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. An Arabic document can be needed almost anywhere, and the destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide |
| Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Egypt and other Arab countries | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: some Arab countries accept the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) and others ask for consular legalization, and we tell you the options before quoting, including the Hague apostille when it applies |
| Consulates, embassies and immigration processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Arabic language pairs we translate

We translate Arabic with more than 30 languages. These are the language pairs with Arabic that we translate today, in both directions.

- [Arabic to Amharic](https://roxotranslations.com/amharic-translation/)
- Arabic to Bulgarian
- [Arabic to Chinese Simplified](https://roxotranslations.com/chinese-translation/)
- [Arabic to Chinese Traditional](https://roxotranslations.com/chinese-translation/)
- [Arabic to Croatian](https://roxotranslations.com/croatian-translation/)
- Arabic to Czech
- Arabic to Danish
- [Arabic to Dutch](https://roxotranslations.com/dutch-translation/)
- [Arabic to English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Arabic to French](https://roxotranslations.com/french-translation/)
- [Arabic to German](https://roxotranslations.com/german-translation/)
- Arabic to Greek
- [Arabic to Hindi](https://roxotranslations.com/hindi-translation/)
- Arabic to Hungarian
- Arabic to Irish
- [Arabic to Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Arabic to Japanese](https://roxotranslations.com/japanese-translation/)
- [Arabic to Korean](https://roxotranslations.com/korean-translation/)
- Arabic to Latin
- [Arabic to Pashto](https://roxotranslations.com/pashto-translation/)
- [Arabic to Persian](https://roxotranslations.com/persian-translation/)
- [Arabic to Polish](https://roxotranslations.com/polish-translation/)
- [Arabic to Portuguese](https://roxotranslations.com/portuguese-translation/)
- Arabic to Punjabi
- Arabic to Punjabi (Gurmukhi)
- Arabic to Punjabi (Shahmukhi)
- Arabic to Romanian
- [Arabic to Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- Arabic to Slovak
- [Arabic to Spanish](https://roxotranslations.com/spanish-translation/)
- Arabic to Swedish
- Arabic to Tagalog
- Arabic to Thai
- Arabic to Turkish
- [Arabic to Urdu](https://roxotranslations.com/urdu-translation/)
- [Arabic to Vietnamese](https://roxotranslations.com/vietnamese-translation/)
- [Amharic to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/amharic-translation/)
- Bulgarian to Arabic
- [Chinese Simplified to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/chinese-translation/)
- [Chinese Traditional to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/chinese-translation/)
- [Croatian to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/croatian-translation/)
- Czech to Arabic
- Danish to Arabic
- [Dutch to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/dutch-translation/)
- [English to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [French to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/french-translation/)
- [German to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/german-translation/)
- Greek to Arabic
- [Hindi to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/hindi-translation/)
- Hungarian to Arabic
- Irish to Arabic
- [Italian to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Japanese to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/japanese-translation/)
- [Korean to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/korean-translation/)
- Latin to Arabic
- [Pashto to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/pashto-translation/)
- [Persian to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/persian-translation/)
- [Polish to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/polish-translation/)
- [Portuguese to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/portuguese-translation/)
- Punjabi to Arabic
- Punjabi (Gurmukhi) to Arabic
- Punjabi (Shahmukhi) to Arabic
- Romanian to Arabic
- [Russian to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- Slovak to Arabic
- [Spanish to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/spanish-translation/)
- Swedish to Arabic
- Tagalog to Arabic
- Thai to Arabic
- Turkish to Arabic
- [Urdu to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/urdu-translation/)
- [Vietnamese to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/vietnamese-translation/)

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Arabic translation services for the Middle East and North Africa

Arabic is one written language with many spoken dialects. Official documents are written in Modern Standard Arabic in every Arab country, but names, dates and numbers follow local customs, and a good translation handles each of them with care.

- Standard and dialects: Modern Standard Arabic is the language of documents, the press and schools, while the spoken dialects, Egyptian, Levantine (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine), Gulf and Maghrebi (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia), change vocabulary and pronunciation and show up in letters, messages and recordings.
- Script: Arabic is written from right to left, in 28 letters that change shape according to their place in the word, with no capital letters and usually without the short vowels. A translation into Arabic needs a right-to-left layout, and a translation from Arabic keeps the order of tables, stamps and signatures.
- Names: the same name can be written in Latin letters in several ways, such as Mohammed, Muhammad or Mohamed, and full names often carry the father’s name with bin, ibn or bint. The translation keeps every name as it is in the original and, for the Latin spelling, uses the one you tell us when you order, such as the spelling in the passport, so every document of the same person matches.
- Dates and numbers: many documents, especially from Saudi Arabia, carry the date in the Hijri (Islamic) calendar next to the Gregorian date, and the Middle East writes the Eastern Arabic numerals (٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩), while the Maghreb uses the same digits as English. The translation reproduces each date exactly as it is in the original.
- Documents: a marriage is recorded in a marriage contract (aqd al-zawaj), the Emirates issue a family book (khulasat al-qaid), and civil records from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia often come in Arabic and French. The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Arabic language

Arabic is a Semitic language, a relative of Hebrew and Aramaic, born in the Arabian Peninsula. One of the oldest inscriptions in Arabic is the Namara inscription, carved in 328 in the Syrian desert, and the Arabic alphabet grew out of the script of the Nabataeans, the people of Petra.

In the 7th century, the Quran fixed the classical form of the language, and in the following centuries Arabic spread to North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and Central Asia. In Baghdad, scholars translated into Arabic the works of Greek, Persian and Indian science, and it was through Arabic that Europe learned the numerals and the zero from India. English words such as sugar, coffee, algebra and zero came through Arabic.

Today Arabic has more than 300 million speakers in more than 20 countries. Since 1973 it has been one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and Modern Standard Arabic, the heir of classical Arabic, is the language of the press, of schools and of official documents across the Arab world.

## We also translate other languages

- [Chinese translation](https://roxotranslations.com/chinese-translation/)
- [Japanese translation](https://roxotranslations.com/japanese-translation/)
- [Hindi translation](https://roxotranslations.com/hindi-translation/)
- [Portuguese translation](https://roxotranslations.com/portuguese-translation/)
- [Russian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)