Learn Arabic through its roots and patterns

Wazn is an Arabic dictionary and study app built around the way Arabic actually works: a few root consonants, poured into patterns, give whole families of related words. Look up a word and see its meanings, plurals, verb forms, conjugations and every relative that shares its root.

Why roots?

Arabic builds vocabulary from roots. كَتَبَ means "he wrote"; the same three letters give كِتَاب "book", كَاتِب "writer" and مَكْتَبَة "library". Learn the root and the pattern, and a new word is half-learned before you meet it. How the root system works →

The study app

Turn any word into a spaced-repetition flashcard, drill conjugations, verb forms and prepositions, and read real, fully-vowelled Arabic with every word tappable for its root and meaning.

Dictionary entries are adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).