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Transliterate Arabic

v1.0.7 · by little-wolf

A simple plugin for the transliteration of Arabic words in posts.

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About this plugin

Use simple ‘codes’ in the post editor to insert romanized Arabic letters. The HTML entities for each symbol are inserted into the saved post, so no conversion is needed at display-time.

Usage

In the post editor, simply use the following ‘codes’ to have romanized latin characters inserted in place.

  • ‘/,,/’ → ʾ (ء)
  • ‘/AA/’ → Ā (آ)
  • ‘/aa/’ → ā (آ)
  • ‘/EE/’ → Ī (ي)
  • ‘/ee/’ → ī (ي)
  • ‘/OO/’ → Ū (و)
  • ‘/oo/’ → ū (و)
  • ‘/HH/’ → Ḥ (ح)
  • ‘/hh/’ → ḥ (ح)
  • ‘/KH/’ → Ḵ (خ)
  • ‘/kh/’ → ḵ (خ)
  • ‘/DH/’ → Ḏ (ذ)
  • ‘/dh/’ → ḏ (ذ)
  • ‘/SH/’ → Š (ش)
  • ‘/sh/’ → š (ش)
  • ‘/SS/’ → Ṣ (ص)
  • ‘/ss/’ → ṣ (ص)
  • ‘/DD/’ → Ḍ (ض)
  • ‘/dd/’ → ḍ (ض)
  • ‘/TT/’ → Ṭ (ط)
  • ‘/tt/’ → ṭ (ط)
  • ‘/ZZ/’ → Ẓ (ظ)
  • ‘/zz/’ → ẓ (ظ)
  • ‘/cc/’ → ʿ (ع)
  • ‘/GH/’ → Ġ (غ)
  • ‘/gh/’ → ġ (غ)

Examples

  • kit/aa/b → kitāb
  • /cc/arab/ee/ → ʿarabī
  • /AA/jurr/oo/m/ee/yah → Ājurrūmīyah

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