Arabic¶
ar, tier B, العربية. 17.9 percent of 290 terms have an approved translation or a protected spelling. This measures terminology coverage, not completed prose review or publication approval.
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Use the English term until a proposed translation is approved, or when a translation is missing. A protected spelling stays unchanged. The fallback original term is the plain English phrase to translate when the term itself will not travel; the principles say how to use it. A draft English name still requires confirmation even if its spelling is protected here.
Select an English term for its definition and application context. The translator handoff explains how to propose changes.
The Arabic localization guide explains the reasoning behind the less obvious choices and the rules that apply to this language.
Names¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Arabic | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Illustrator | do-not-translate | ||
| app.fontographer.net | app.fontographer.net | do-not-translate | ||
| FLUM | FLUM | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| FontLab | FontLab | do-not-translate | ||
| fontlab (Python module) | fontlab (Python module) | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab 8 | FontLab 8 | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab 9 | FontLab 9 | do-not-translate | English term: draft. | |
| Fontlab Ltd. | Fontlab Ltd. | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab Pass | FontLab Pass | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab Studio 5 | FontLab Studio 5 | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| fontlab.com | fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| Fontographer | Fontographer | do-not-translate | ||
| Fontographer.net | Fontographer.net | do-not-translate | English term: draft. | |
| forum.fontlab.com | forum.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| GlyphRef | GlyphRef | do-not-translate | ||
| help.fontlab.com | help.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| help.vexy.art | help.vexy.art | do-not-translate | ||
| pass.fontlab.com | pass.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| Photofont | Photofont | do-not-translate | ||
| playlines.vexy.art | playlines.vexy.art | do-not-translate | ||
| Strokes Maker | Strokes Maker | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| studio.fontlab.com | studio.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | English term: draft. | |
| TransType 5 | TransType 5 | do-not-translate | ||
| TypeTool | TypeTool | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy | Vexy | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Lines | Vexy Lines | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Linestra | Vexy Linestra | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Playlines | Vexy Playlines | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Vextra | Vexy Vextra | do-not-translate |
Type design¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Arabic | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ascender | upward extension | صاعد | proposed | 29LT's Arabic type-anatomy article (الصاعد) and the TypeType glossary (الصاعدة); the traditional pair صواعد/نوازل. Rejected Glyphs 3 Arabic خط السقف. |
| baseline | writing line | خط الأساس | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic and Adobe use خط الأساس; TypeType has الخط الأساسي. Rejected 29LT's خط الارتكاز as less common in software. |
| bowl | round belly | بطن الحرف | proposed | No settled term; fallback 'round belly' translated. Rejected سلطانية (kitchen bowl), TypeType's descriptive الشكل البيضاوي and the calligraphic كأس, which names the open cup of letters such as ن. |
| cap height | capital-letter height | ارتفاع الأحرف الكبيرة | proposed | 29LT (خط ارتفاع الحرف الكبير) and TypeType (ارتفاع الحروف الكبيرة). Rejected Glyphs 3 Arabic ارتفاع الغطاء, which translates cap as lid. |
| character | حرف | proposed | Adobe and Apple Arabic use حرف/أحرف for character; keeping حرف here leaves محرف free for glyph, the distinction the definition requires. Plural أحرف. | |
| contour | مسار | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic (مسار for path), Adobe Illustrator Arabic and TS Fonts (مسارات) use مسار for a sequence of connected segments. Rejected Glyphs' long خط كنتوري and the corpus pick محيط. | |
| counter | enclosed white space | فراغ داخلي | proposed | TypeType Arabic glossary: الفراغ الداخلي. Rejected the corpus pick عداد, the counting device. |
| descender | downward extension | نازل | proposed | 29LT's Arabic type-anatomy article and the TypeType glossary both use النازل. Rejected Glyphs 3 Arabic خط القاع. |
| diacritical mark | combining mark | علامة تشكيل | proposed | Apple CoreText (علامات تشكيل) and the TypeType glossary (العلامات التشكيلية); the same word Arabic uses for its own vowel marks. |
| em | type body | em | proposed | Adobe InDesign Arabic help and Glyphs 3 Arabic (الوحدات لكل Em) both leave em in Latin script; Arabic typesetting has no settled word for it. Rejected TypeType's مربع الـ Em and the transliteration إم. |
| extremum | local extreme point | نقطة قصوى | proposed | TypeType Arabic glossary: النقاط القصوى; also the mathematical term. |
| glyph | محرف | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic uses محرف/المحارف throughout, and Khalid Alabdullah's Arabic type blog says the profession calls glyphs المحارف. Rejected صورة حرف (Apple Font Book), حرف رسومي (Adobe) and the loan غليف (TypeType); note that general Arabic computing sometimes uses محرف for character. | |
| handle | مقبض | proposed | Inkscape Arabic and Adobe Illustrator Arabic (مقابض اتجاه) use مقبض, plural مقابض. | |
| ink trap | ink relief notch | مصيدة حبر | proposed | TypeType Arabic glossary: مصيدة الحبر, plural مصائد الحبر. |
| italic angle | slant angle | زاوية الميل | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: زاوية الميل. |
| lining figures | capital-height figures | أرقام مرصفة | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: أرقام مرصفة. Apple has أرقام مصفوفة and TypeType الأرقام المصطفة. |
| node | عقدة | proposed | TS Fonts (Arabic foundry) writes عقد for nodes; Inkscape, Blender and Visio Arabic use عقدة. Glyphs 3 Arabic uses نقطة, rejected because FontLab must keep node apart from on-curve, off-curve and control point (نقطة). | |
| overshoot | optical surplus | امتداد بصري | proposed | The TypeType Arabic glossary defines الامتداد البصري as exactly this; it also matches the fallback 'optical surplus'. Rejected تجاوز, which reads as skip or override in UI. |
| proportional figures | natural-width figures | أرقام نسبية | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic and Apple CoreText: أرقام نسبية. |
| segment | قطعة | proposed | The mathematical term for a segment and attested in the corpus; Glyphs 3 Arabic has جزء, rejected because it reads as any part. | |
| serif | ذنابة | proposed | The TypeType Arabic glossary has الذنابة, and Apple CoreText's دون ذبانة looks like a misspelling of the same word. Rejected 29LT's تذييل and Font Book's مذيل because حرف مذيل is the swash in Glyphs and Adobe. | |
| sharp | حاد | proposed | Standard Arabic for sharp in Apple, Adobe and Microsoft. | |
| sharp node | عقدة حادة | proposed | Derived from عقدة and حاد; no attestation of the compound. | |
| stem | main stroke | ساق | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic (ساق, السيقان) and the TypeType Arabic glossary (الساق) agree. Feminine noun. |
| swash | flourish | حرف مذيل | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic, Adobe Illustrator Arabic (الحروف المذيلة) and Apple CoreText (أحرف مذيلة) agree. Rejected TS Fonts' الحروف الممتدة and Apple's زخرفة. |
| terminal | stroke ending | نهاية | proposed | TS Fonts (النهايات) and the TypeType glossary (النهاية, نهاية الضربة). Rejected وحدة طرفية, the computer terminal. |
| UPM | units per type body | UPM | proposed | Use UPM in compact numeric controls, as in the canonical TS. In explanatory prose: وحدات لكل em. The expanded Units Per eM: label retains its full wording. |
| winding direction | drawing direction | اتجاه المسار | proposed | Derived from مسار; Glyphs 3 Arabic has حدد الاتجاه for Set Direction. |
| x-height | small-letter height | ارتفاع x | proposed | 29LT writes ارتفاع الحرف إكس and TypeType ارتفاع الحرف x; shortened for dense panels. Rejected Glyphs 3 Arabic ارتفاع صلب الحرف, not found elsewhere. |
Font engineering¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Arabic | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| advance height | تقدم رأسي | proposed | No attestation; names the vertical advance directly, with Apple CoreText's رأسي for vertical. ارتفاع المحرف was rejected because it reads as the visible height. | |
| advance width | glyph box width | عرض المحرف | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic labels the advance simply العرض; عرض المحرف keeps it apart from the width axis and from a shape's geometric width. Rejected the unattested calque عرض التقدم. |
| alignment zone | height band for snapping | منطقة محاذاة | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: مناطق المحاذاة. |
| anchor | attachment point | مرساة | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: مرساة, plural مراسي. Adobe's نقطة ربط names an anchor point on a path, which is a node, not this object. |
| anti-aliasing | edge smoothing | تنعيم الحواف | proposed | Fallback 'edge smoothing' translated; the common Arabic phrase in graphics writing. Rejected Krita's الصقل. |
| autohinting | automatic screen fitting | تلميح تلقائي | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: التلميح التلقائي; same verbal noun as the command. |
| axis | محور | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic and TS Fonts: محور, plural محاور. | |
| axis map | axis value mapping | تعيين المحور | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: تعيينات المحاور for axis mappings. |
| bottom sidebearing | هامش سفلي | proposed | Derived from هامش جانبي; the word for side is dropped because the bearing is vertical. | |
| component | مكون | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: مكون, plural مكونات. | |
| composite glyph | assembled glyph | محرف مجمّع | proposed | Fallback 'assembled glyph' translated; the shadda disambiguates. Glyphs 3 Arabic and Font Book use مركب, rejected because حرف مركب is the ligature in Adobe and TS Fonts. |
| conversion profile | export settings set | ملف تعريف التحويل | proposed | No attestation; ملف تعريف is the standard Arabic for a settings profile. Arabic uses تحويل for both conversion and transform. |
| CVT table | جدول CVT | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic uses جدول for font tables; the tag stays Latin. | |
| design space | variation range | فضاء التصميم | proposed | No attestation of the compound; فضاء is the mathematical word for a multi-dimensional space, where Glyphs 3 Arabic has مساحة الاستيفاء. |
| device correction | per-size pixel correction | تصحيح حسب الحجم | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'per-size pixel correction' translated, following the reviewed languages' size correction. |
| dimensions | أبعاد | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic names its Dimensions panel لوحة الأبعاد. | |
| element | عنصر | proposed | Standard Arabic UI word (Microsoft Visio, Krita); FontLab's element has no competing Arabic term. | |
| element reference | shared drawing link | مرجع عنصر | proposed | Derived from عنصر and مرجع; no attestation of the compound. |
| family dimensions | أبعاد العائلة | proposed | Derived from أبعاد; عائلة is the standard Arabic for a font family. | |
| Flex | Flex | proposed | Kept in Latin script as the PostScript operator name, as the reviewed languages do; Glyphs 3 Arabic transliterates فلكس. | |
| font dimensions | أبعاد الخط | proposed | Derived from أبعاد and خط (font). | |
| font target | export target | خط الوجهة | proposed | No attestation; وجهة is the usual Arabic software word for a destination or target. |
| font unit | وحدة خط | proposed | Derived from Glyphs 3 Arabic الوحدات لكل Em; خط here means font. | |
| fractional coordinates | non-integer coordinates | إحداثيات كسرية | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic uses إحداثيات for coordinates; كسري is the mathematical adjective. |
| friendly glyph name | readable glyph name | اسم محرف مقروء | proposed | Fallback 'readable glyph name' translated; Glyphs 3 Arabic calls its nice names الأسماء اللطيفة. |
| ghost hint | edge-only fitting instruction | تلميح شبحي | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic has تلميح خيال for Ghost Hint; the adjective شبحي is the idiomatic form. |
| hint | screen fitting instruction | تلميح | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: تلميح, plural تلميحات. Rejected the loan هنت/هنتنج. |
| hint zone | hinting height band | منطقة تلميح | proposed | Derived from تلميح and Glyphs 3 Arabic منطقة for zone. |
| hinting | screen fitting | تلميح | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic uses the native تلميح, not the loan هنتنج; Arabic has one verbal noun for hint and hinting. Rejected TypeType's تحسين العرض. |
| instance | generated design | حالة | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic uses حالة consistently (أضف حالة, الحالة كماستر). Rejected نسخة and TypeType's descriptive الأنماط المولدة; a reviewer should confirm حالة does not read as 'state'. |
| interpolation | استيفاء | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic and the TypeType glossary: الاستيفاء. | |
| kern exception | pair spacing exception | استثناء تقنين | proposed | No attestation; fallback translated and derived from تقنين. |
| kerning | pair spacing correction | تقنين | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic uses التقنين and Adobe InDesign Arabic uses تقنين الأحرف; the native term wins over the loans كيرنينج/كيرنينغ (TypeType). The verb is قنّن; compounds take تقنين as second noun. |
| kerning class | pair spacing group | فئة تقنين | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: فئة التقنين اليسرى/اليمنى. Derived from تقنين; مجموعة تقنين is kept for kerning group. |
| kerning pair | spacing-corrected pair | زوج تقنين | proposed | Derived from تقنين; Adobe InDesign Arabic help calls the pairs أزواج. No direct attestation of the compound. |
| left sidebearing | هامش جانبي أيسر | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: الهامش الجانبي الأيسر. Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0. | |
| Lib | Lib | proposed | Kept in Latin script: it mirrors the UFO lib key, as the reviewed languages do. | |
| line gap | فجوة السطر | proposed | No attestation; literal and short, with سطر for a line of text so it is not read as خط (font). | |
| line height | ارتفاع السطر | proposed | Standard Arabic rendering of line height in web and layout software. | |
| link metrics | tie spacing to another glyph | ربط المقاييس | proposed | Derived from مقاييس; no attestation of the command. |
| linked metrics | مقاييس مرتبطة | proposed | Derived from مقاييس and ربط. | |
| mark attachment | combining mark positioning | تموضع العلامات | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: تموضع/موضعة العلامات for mark positioning, which is what the fallback names. |
| master | source design | ماستر | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic uses the loan ماستر consistently (أضف ماستر, توافق الماستر); an attested professional loan. Plural ماسترات. Rejected رئيسي (office-suite slide master) and TypeType's descriptive الأنماط الأساسية. |
| master compatibility | matching master structure | توافق الماسترات | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: توافق الماستر; plural used here because the condition holds between masters. |
| metrics | مقاييس | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: المقاييس. قياسات (TypeType, Font Book) is kept for canvas measurements. | |
| metrics expression | تعبير مقاييس | proposed | Derived from مقاييس; تعبير is the standard Arabic for an expression. | |
| metrics key | مفتاح مقاييس | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: مفاتيح المقاييس. | |
| pin | دبوس | proposed | English term: draft. Issue 160 catalog family review: named point inside an element, distinct from a glyph-layer anchor. Proteus Resources/helptips.json def.anchorpin defines the behavior. Preserve this term across panel, tool, action and help labels; proposed terminology, not native-team approval. | |
| PPM | pixels per type body | PPM | proposed | Use PPM in compact numeric controls, as in the canonical TS. In explanatory prose: بكسل لكل em. The expanded Units Per eM: label retains its full wording. |
| production glyph name | shipping glyph name | اسم إنتاج المحرف | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: اسم الإنتاج, with محرف added as the English does. |
| rendering | drawing on screen | تصيير | proposed | GIMP and Scribus Arabic use تصيير; rejected تظهير (Khalid Alabdullah's blog) as less widespread. |
| required glyphs | mandatory glyphs | محارف إلزامية | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'mandatory glyphs' translated. |
| right sidebearing | هامش جانبي أيمن | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: الهامش الجانبي الأيمن. Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0. | |
| sidebearing | side space | هامش جانبي | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: الهامش الجانبي الأيسر/الأيمن. Rejected TypeType's فراغ جانبي and TS Fonts' مسافات جانبية in favour of the font-editor term. |
| size | حجم | proposed | Standard Arabic for size in Apple, Adobe and Glyphs (حجم الخط). | |
| spacing | تباعد | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic, Apple CoreText and the TypeType glossary all use التباعد. | |
| standard stem | reference stem width | ساق قياسية | proposed | Derived from ساق; no attestation of the compound. |
| stem link | stem tie | رابط ساق | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'stem tie' translated and derived from ساق. |
| styling group name | اسم مجموعة الأنماط | proposed | No attestation; built on مجموعة and نمط, Apple's word for a font style. | |
| subsetting | cutting down a font | إنشاء مجموعة فرعية | proposed | Apple Font Book: إنشاء مجموعة فرعية من الخط. |
| top sidebearing | هامش علوي | proposed | Derived from هامش جانبي; the word for side is dropped because the bearing is vertical. | |
| tracking | uniform letter spacing | تتبع | proposed | Adobe InDesign Arabic help pairs تقنين الأحرف with التتبع, and تتبع is the most frequent rendering in the corpus. Rejected the older InDesign label ضبط تجانب الحروف as long and opaque. |
| TrueType instruction | pixel fitting instruction | تعليمة TrueType | proposed | تعليمة is the standard Arabic for a program instruction; no attestation of the compound. |
| typographic family name | اسم العائلة الطباعي | proposed | Apple CoreText uses طباعي for typographic; عائلة for family. | |
| update metrics | تحديث المقاييس | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: تحديث for Update and المقاييس for metrics. | |
| variable font | خط متغير | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic and TS Fonts: الخط المتغير, الخطوط المتغيرة. | |
| variation location | position in the variation range | موضع | proposed | Follows the reviewed languages, which say only position; Apple CoreText uses موضع for position. |
| vertical advance | glyph box height | تقدم رأسي | proposed | Same concept as advance height, so the same term; no attestation, fallback translated. |
| vertical metrics | مقاييس رأسية | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: المقاييس الرأسية. | |
| visual kerning | shape-measured spacing correction | تقنين بصري | proposed | Adobe InDesign Arabic calls optical kerning تقنين الأحرف البصري; derived from تقنين. |
| weight axis | thickness axis | محور الوزن | proposed | Derived from محور and وزن; TS Fonts names the weight axis this way. |
| weight class | فئة الوزن | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: فئة الوزن. | |
| width axis | narrow-to-wide axis | محور العرض | proposed | Derived from محور and عرض. |
| width class | فئة العرض | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: فئة العرض. |
OpenType¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Arabic | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Glyph List | Adobe Glyph List | do-not-translate | ||
| alternate glyph | glyph variant | محرف بديل | proposed | Derived from محرف and بديل. |
| cmap | cmap | do-not-translate | ||
| code page | legacy character table | صفحة ترميز | proposed | Microsoft Arabic: صفحة الترميز. |
| color font table | جدول خط ملون | proposed | Derived from جدول and Font Book's ملون for colour glyphs. | |
| contextual alternates | context-dependent variants | بدائل سياقية | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic, Adobe InDesign Arabic and TS Fonts all use البدائل السياقية. |
| cursive attachment | joined-script connection | تموضع متصل | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: تموضع متصل for cursive positioning. |
| design languages | لغات مستهدفة | proposed | No attestation; follows the reviewed languages (target languages), because لغات التصميم reads as visual design languages. | |
| encoding | ترميز | proposed | Apple, Microsoft and the TypeType glossary use ترميز. | |
| feature code | layout rule code | كود الميزات | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: كود الميزة. |
| fractions | كسور | proposed | Apple CoreText and Glyphs: كسور. | |
| glyph index | glyph number | فهرس المحرف | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic uses فهارس for indexes; rejected Font Book's مؤشر, which means pointer. |
| glyph name | اسم المحرف | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: اسم المحرف. | |
| GPOS | GPOS | do-not-translate | ||
| GSUB | GSUB | do-not-translate | ||
| ligature | joined letters | حرف مركب | proposed | Adobe Arabic (الحروف المركبة), TS Fonts (المركبات) and Glyphs 3 Arabic (مركبة). Rejected Apple's أحرف متصلة, because all Arabic letters join, and TypeType's الرابطة. |
| localized forms | language-specific variants | أشكال محلية | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: أشكال محلية. |
| lookup | procedure | إجراء | proposed | User/team procedure fallback. No sufficiently strong established OpenType-specific alternative verified in the reviewed primary sources. Keep the approved contextual Rules panel title. Preserve literal FEA lookup/lookupflag keywords, identifiers and OpenType structure names. Ordinary search senses are separate. |
| mark glyph | combining mark glyph | محرف علامة | proposed | Derived from محرف and علامة. |
| nonspacing mark | zero-width combining mark | علامة بلا تباعد | proposed | Derived from علامة and بلا تباعد; no attestation of the compound. |
| oldstyle figures | lowercase-style figures | أرقام النمط القديم | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: أرقام النمط القديم; Apple has أرقام قديمة النمط. |
| OpenType class | layout glyph group | فئة OpenType | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic uses فئة for classes. |
| OpenType feature | layout feature | ميزة OpenType | proposed | TypeType Arabic glossary: ميزات OpenType. Rejected InDesign's خصائص الخطوط المتطورة. |
| OS/2 table | جدول OS/2 | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic uses جدول for font tables; the tag stays Latin. | |
| Private Use Area | Private Use Area | do-not-translate | ||
| single substitution | استبدال مفرد | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic uses استبدال for substitution. | |
| small caps | small capitals | أحرف كبيرة مصغرة | proposed | TypeType glossary (الحروف الكبيرة المصغرة) and an InDesign Arabic string. Rejected Apple's and Microsoft's أحرف استهلالية صغيرة, which names drop caps, and Glyphs 3 Arabic علوية صغيرة. |
| stylistic set | مجموعة أسلوبية | proposed | TS Fonts and the TypeType glossary use أسلوبية for stylistic; rejected Apple's and Microsoft's المجموعة النمطية, since نمط is the font style. | |
| tabular figures | equal-width figures | أرقام جدولية | proposed | TypeType glossary (الأرقام الجدولية) and a corpus string; Glyphs 3 Arabic has الأشكال الجدولية. |
| Unicode codepoint | character code | نقطة ترميز Unicode | proposed | TypeType glossary and Arabic reference usage: نقطة ترميز; Unicode stays Latin as a standard's name. |
| variation selector | variant picker character | محدد التنوع | proposed | No attestation; built on Glyphs 3 Arabic تنوع for variation. |
| writing system | نظام كتابة | proposed | Microsoft Arabic: نظام الكتابة. |
File formats¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Arabic | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI file | AI file | do-not-translate | ||
| AIP | AIP | do-not-translate | ||
| FLREQ | FLREQ | do-not-translate | ||
| Fog.net | Fog.net | do-not-translate | ||
| Glyphs file | Glyphs file | do-not-translate | ||
| Lines file | Lines file | do-not-translate | ||
| OTF | OTF | do-not-translate | ||
| SVG | SVG | do-not-translate | ||
| TTC | TTC | do-not-translate | ||
| TTF | TTF | do-not-translate | ||
| Type 1 | Type 1 | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| UFO | UFO | do-not-translate | ||
| VFB | VFB | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| VFC | VFC | do-not-translate | ||
| VFJ | VFJ | do-not-translate | ||
| WOFF2 | WOFF2 | do-not-translate |
Interface¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Arabic | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| action | إجراء | proposed | Apple and Microsoft Arabic: إجراء. | |
| add | إضافة | proposed | Apple and Microsoft Arabic use the verbal noun إضافة for the command. | |
| alternate | بديل | proposed | Apple CoreText and Glyphs use بديل, plural بدائل. | |
| anchor cloud | attachment point cloud | سحابة المراسي | proposed | No attestation; derived from مرساة and the plain word for cloud, as German, French and Polish did. |
| auto layer | recipe-built layer | طبقة تلقائية | proposed | Derived from طبقة, with تلقائي as in Glyphs' تلميح تلقائي. |
| autohint | تلميح تلقائي | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: تلميح تلقائي. | |
| Brush | فرشاة | proposed | Apple, Microsoft and Glyphs 3 Arabic: فرشاة. | |
| collapse | طي | proposed | Apple Arabic: طي for Collapse; the reviewed languages also took the fold sense. | |
| color flag | color mark | وسم لوني | proposed | Fallback 'color mark' translated with وسم (Apple Font Book's word for a tag), so it does not collide with علامة, the mark glyph. |
| corner angles | زوايا الأركان | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic uses ركن for a corner and زاوية for an angle; the compound keeps both senses apart. | |
| cousins | related glyphs alongside | أقارب | proposed | Arabic has no single word for cousin (ابن عم, ابن خال), so the plain collective for relatives is used; no attestation, house voice. |
| crop | اقتصاص | proposed | Apple and Microsoft Arabic: اقتصاص. Rejected the corpus pick حصد, which means harvest. | |
| cubic | تكعيبي | proposed | The mathematical adjective for a cubic curve; مكعب is the noun cube. | |
| current | حالي | proposed | Apple and Microsoft Arabic: الحالي. | |
| cusp | رأس مدبب | proposed | No attestation; plain phrase for a pointed tip, kept apart from عقدة حادة (sharp node). | |
| decompose | break into contours | تفكيك | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: تفكيك, تفكيك المكونات. |
| default | افتراضي | proposed | Apple and Microsoft Arabic: افتراضي. | |
| demo mode | وضع تجريبي | proposed | No attestation; the usual Arabic for a trial or demo mode. | |
| dialog | مربع حوار | proposed | Microsoft Arabic: مربع حوار; clearer than bare حوار. | |
| Dream Up | generate shapes | تخيل | proposed | The plain Arabic verb for imagining something up; no attestation, house voice. |
| echo text | repeated text | ترديد النص | proposed | No attestation; ترديد is to say again after someone, which keeps the echo and avoids تكرار, the Repeat command. |
| Eraser | ممحاة | proposed | Apple and Microsoft Arabic: ممحاة, the real tool's name. | |
| expand filter | bake filter into contours | تحويل الفلتر إلى مسارات | proposed | No attestation; same pattern as expand stroke, with فلتر as in Apple Font Book. |
| expand stroke | bake stroke into contours | تحويل الحد إلى مسارات | proposed | No attestation; the German pattern (stroke to contours) translated with حد and مسار. |
| expand transformation | bake transformation into contours | تطبيق التحويل | proposed | No attestation; follows the French choice (apply the transformation), since the result is written into the nodes. |
| feature | ميزة | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic and Apple CoreText use ميزة, plural ميزات; TypeType has ميزات OpenType. | |
| Fills | تعبئات | proposed | Adobe Arabic uses تعبئة for fill; plural as a panel name. | |
| FontAudit | فونت أوديت | proposed | User requires phonetic transliteration, explicitly including Chinese. Russian and Ukrainian spellings were recovered from team QPH; other spellings are proposals. Retain the FontAudit identity; do not translate as a generic audit command. Preserve FontAudit in code and identifiers. | |
| FontLab account | حساب FontLab | proposed | Translate the common noun account and inflect it in complete sentences; preserve the FontLab brand. German, Spanish and French wording is already used in current FontLab UI. Other language forms are proposals. Do not duplicate account when the surrounding sentence already translates it. | |
| Fusion | Welder | لحّام | proposed | User decision 2026-10-04: translate the fallback Welder, the named live boolean group filter. Polish Spawacz is explicit; other renderings are proposals. Preserve Fusion in code identifiers. |
| Genius node | self-balancing node | عقدة عبقرية | proposed | Genius translated with the plain Arabic عبقري; derived from عقدة. |
| grid | شبكة | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic, Adobe and Apple use شبكة. | |
| Groups | مجموعات | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: مجموعات التقنين; plural as a panel name. | |
| guide | دليل | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic and Adobe InDesign Arabic use دليل, plural أدلة. | |
| kerning mode | وضع التقنين | proposed | Derived from تقنين with وضع, the usual Arabic UI word for an editing mode. | |
| Knife | سكين | proposed | Apple and Microsoft Arabic: سكين, the real tool's name. | |
| layer | طبقة | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic, Adobe and Microsoft all use طبقة. | |
| Layers | طبقات | proposed | Plural of طبقة, as a panel name without the article. | |
| mark | علامة | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: العلامات for marks. | |
| Masks | أقنعة | proposed | Blender and Adobe Arabic use قناع, plural أقنعة. | |
| match | مطابقة | proposed | Apple and Adobe Arabic: مطابقة. | |
| matching | متطابق | proposed | Adjective derived from مطابقة; inflect for gender and number. | |
| Matchmaker | master matcher | خاطبة | proposed | The traditional village matchmaker of Arab culture, as plain as Polish swat; no attestation, house voice. The functional alternative is موائم الماسترات. |
| measurement line | خط قياس | proposed | Derived from قياس; no attestation. | |
| measurements | قياسات | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: إظهار القياسات. | |
| Measurements panel | لوحة القياسات | proposed | Derived from قياسات and لوحة; labels inside the panel must stay as short as the English. | |
| merge | دمج | proposed | Apple and Microsoft Arabic: دمج. | |
| mesh | شبكة تشويه | proposed | No attestation; qualified so that it stays distinct from شبكة, the alignment grid. | |
| metrics mode | وضع المقاييس | proposed | Derived from مقاييس, parallel to وضع التقنين. | |
| metrics table | جدول المقاييس | proposed | Derived from مقاييس. | |
| metrics tool | أداة المقاييس | proposed | Derived from مقاييس. | |
| monospaced | أحادي المسافة | proposed | Apple Font Book and CoreText: أحادي المسافة. TypeType has أحادي العرض. | |
| multi-line | متعدد الأسطر | proposed | Microsoft Arabic: متعدد الأسطر. | |
| nonspacing | zero-width | بلا تباعد | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic has بلا مسافات for Nonspacing; rebuilt on تباعد so the family follows the chosen noun for spacing. |
| Nudge | push move | زحزحة | proposed | House voice: the everyday Arabic word for shifting something slightly out of place. Glyphs 3 Arabic and Microsoft have دفع, rejected as flat and because it also means payment. |
| Oblique | Oblique | proposed | A fixed operation name with no established Arabic equivalent, so it stays as in German and Polish; Apple's منحدر names the oblique style, and مائل is italic or any slant. | |
| panel | لوحة | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic (لوحة المعاينة) and Adobe Arabic use لوحة. | |
| Pencil | قلم رصاص | proposed | Apple and Adobe Arabic: قلم رصاص, the real tool's name. | |
| Power Brush | power calligraphic brush | فرشاة خارقة | proposed | Power in the superhero register: خارق, as in قوى خارقة; derived from فرشاة. |
| Power Guide | power guideline | دليل خارق | proposed | Power in the superhero register: خارق; derived from دليل. |
| Power Nudge | power push move | زحزحة خارقة | proposed | Derived from زحزحة with خارق, the superhero word for power (قوى خارقة), to keep the wink. |
| Power Stroke | power stroke outline | حد خارق | proposed | Power in the superhero register: خارق; derived from حد. |
| project | مشروع | proposed | Procedure fallback review: project is the editable document; package remains separate. Arabic proposal; not part of the recovered team QPH additions. | |
| property bar | شريط الخصائص | proposed | Built on شريط, the Arabic for a toolbar strip in Apple and Microsoft. | |
| quick measurement | قياس سريع | proposed | Derived from قياس; no attestation. | |
| Rapid | رابيد | proposed | Issue 161 names the tool Rapid in Latin scripts and requires transliteration elsewhere. Canonical TS uses رابيد. Do not translate the tool name as fast or quick, and do not use Rapidograph. Contrast classifications use the ordinary speed adjective. | |
| redo | إعادة | proposed | Apple and Adobe Arabic: إعادة for Redo. | |
| reference | مرجع | proposed | Standard Arabic software term (Apple, Microsoft); kept distinct from مكون and عنصر. | |
| Remove Overlap | merge overlapping contours | إزالة التداخل | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: إزالة التداخل. |
| repeat | تكرار | proposed | Apple and Adobe Arabic: تكرار, kept distinct from إعادة. | |
| reverse contour | flip drawing direction | عكس اتجاه المسار | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic: عكس اتجاه الخط الكنتوري, rebuilt on مسار. |
| Scissors | مقص | proposed | Apple and Microsoft Arabic: مقص, the real tool's name. | |
| Servant node | Follower node | عقدة تابعة | proposed | Read as Follower node: تابع is one that follows a leader; derived from عقدة. |
| Sigma | Sigma | do-not-translate | ||
| Sketchboard | scratch canvas | كراسة الرسم | proposed | A sketchbook, the everyday object, as Polish did; no attestation. لوحة was avoided because it is the panel. |
| Skin | wrapping outline | قشرة | proposed | The skin or peel of a fruit, as Polish did; no attestation. Rejected جلد, which is animal hide. |
| smart | clever | شاطر | proposed | House voice asks for the plain word for clever with a hint of cunning, not intelligent: شاطر is that word in Arabic (الشاطر حسن). Every corpus source, Glyphs 3 Arabic included, has ذكي, rejected because it is the word of الذكاء الاصطناعي; the more formal alternative is بارع. |
| Smart Corner | clever corner | ركن شاطر | proposed | Derived from شاطر and Glyphs 3 Arabic ركن for a corner. |
| Smart Filter | المرشح الشاطر | proposed | Named glyph-selection filter; not a graphical live effect. Match this term in the Font window, Aidus settings, dialogs and help. | |
| spacing controls | side space handles | مقابض التباعد | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'side space handles' translated with مقبض (handle) and تباعد. |
| sticker | ملصق | proposed | The everyday Arabic word for a sticker; rejected Microsoft's لاصق, which is adhesive. | |
| tab | علامة تبويب | proposed | Apple Font Book and Microsoft Arabic: علامة تبويب. Rejected حرف جدولة, the tab character. | |
| text element | text block | عنصر نصي | proposed | Derived from عنصر. |
| thickness | سماكة | proposed | TS Fonts and 29LT write سماكة for stroke thickness; chosen over سمك, which unvocalized also reads as fish. | |
| Transform | تحويل | proposed | Adobe, Microsoft and Glyphs 3 Arabic use تحويل for Transform. | |
| transformation | تحويل | proposed | Arabic uses the same verbal noun for the operation and its result; plural تحويلات where the count matters. | |
| True Fill | final black rendering | تعبئة حقيقية | proposed | Follows German and French (real fill), built on تعبئة; no snappier Arabic idiom was found. |
| uncheck | إلغاء التحديد | proposed | Apple and Microsoft Arabic: إلغاء التحديد. | |
| Vexy coins | Vexy coins | do-not-translate | ||
| waterfall | size ladder preview | شلال | proposed | Apple Font Book: شلال. |
| weight | وزن | proposed | Glyphs 3 Arabic, Apple, 29LT and TS Fonts use وزن, plural أوزان, for typeface weight; سماكة is kept for measured thickness. | |
| whitespace | مسافة بيضاء | proposed | Microsoft Arabic: المسافة البيضاء. Rejected InDesign's مسافة صغيرة, a specific thin space. |
Vector drawing¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Arabic | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appearance panel | لوحة المظهر | proposed | No verified Adobe label: Arabic Adobe help often leaves panel names in English, so a reviewer should check the running Illustrator UI. المظهر is the standard Arabic for appearance. | |
| autotrace | bitmap to outline conversion | تحويل الصورة إلى مسارات | proposed | Fallback 'bitmap to outline conversion' translated. Adobe's تتبع الصورة was rejected because تتبع is tracking in this glossary. |
| centerline | خط المركز | proposed | Microsoft Visio Arabic: خط المركز. | |
| clipping mask | قناع قطع | proposed | Adobe Illustrator Arabic: قناع قطع. | |
| control point | control handle point | نقطة تحكم | proposed | Blender Arabic and general CAD usage; keeps نقطة for points and عقدة for nodes. |
| Fill Grid | grid of fill lines | شبكة التعبئات | proposed | No attestation; the grid of fill previews, built on شبكة and تعبئة. |
| fill mode | line fill style | نمط تعبئة | proposed | The corpus has نمط الملء and وضع التعبئة (Blender); rebuilt on Adobe's تعبئة. نمط because a fill mode is a style of line work, not an editing mode. |
| G2 continuity | استمرارية G2 | proposed | Mathematical Arabic استمرارية with the Latin class name kept. | |
| Live Effect | editable effect | تأثير حي | proposed | No verified Adobe Arabic label; literal rendering of Illustrator's term, which matches the fallback 'editable effect' in use. |
| off-curve point | point off the curve | نقطة خارج المنحنى | proposed | No attestation; fallback translated literally with منحنى, Glyphs' word for curve. |
| on-curve point | point on the curve | نقطة على المنحنى | proposed | No attestation; fallback translated literally with منحنى, Glyphs' word for curve. |
| outline | محيط | proposed | The TypeType Arabic glossary writes محيط الحرف and المحيط الخارجي for a letter's outline, and Krita Arabic has محيط; it names the whole drawing while مسار names one contour. Rejected Glyphs 3 Arabic إطار (reads as frame) and مخطط (reads as diagram). | |
| stroke | حد | proposed | Adobe InDesign Arabic uses حد and Illustrator حدود الشكل for the stroke along a path; the short form is taken. Not the calligraphic stroke, which is ضربة. | |
| stroke cap | stroke end cap | طرف الحد | proposed | Adobe InDesign Arabic: شكل أطراف حدود الشكل, shortened and built on حد. |
| stroke join | stroke corner shape | وصلة الحد | proposed | No direct attestation; وصلة is the usual Arabic for a join, built on حد. |
| tangent node | straight-to-curve node | عقدة مماسية | proposed | Derived from عقدة with the mathematical adjective for tangent; no attestation. |
| tonal map | darkness map | خريطة الدرجات اللونية | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'darkness map' widened to tonal values, درجات لونية. |
| Tunni line | خط توني | proposed | Eponym transliterated, as Arabic does with Bézier (بيزييه); no attestation. |