Word lookup
Look up a word in English, Arabic or Turkish without leaving the page, with where it comes from.
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English: meanings, pronunciation with recordings, and where the word comes from
Meet a word you do not know and look it up without leaving your page, in English, Arabic or Turkish.
Three languages
The letters you type choose the language: Arabic letters are looked up in Arabic, a Turkish letter in Turkish. For a word that could be either English or Turkish, tap EN, AR or TR. In Settings › Extensions you choose which of the three sit beside the box, so a reader of English and Arabic sees just those two.
- English: meanings, pronunciation with recordings you can play, and the etymology, from Wiktionary
- Turkish: Vikisözlük's meanings, and where the word comes from in Vikisözlük, Wiktionary and Nişanyan's etymological dictionary
- Arabic: the root (tap it to look up the root itself), meanings from Wiktionary and Vikisözlük, the etymology of the word and of its root verb, the root's articles in the classical dictionaries al-Mufradat, Maqayis al-Lugha, Lisan al-Arab and al-Sihah with the word marked, and its ayahs in the Qur'an with a translation
Where it works
- Type
/and choose Word: a popup over the page you are reading or writing, gone when you are done - Or pin the Word widget to a page or a dashboard, for a page where you look words up all the time
Where it comes from
Meanings and etymologies come from Wiktionary and Vikisözlük, the free dictionaries, and from etimolojiturkce.com for Nişanyan. The classical dictionaries and the Qur'an corpus (about 45 MB, from OpenITI and the Quranic Arabic Corpus) are downloaded once, the first time you ask, and searched on your computer after that. Nothing about you is sent with a lookup beyond the word.
At a glance
- English, Arabic and Turkish, picked by the letters you type or a tap on EN, AR or TR
- Meanings, pronunciation and recordings from Wiktionary
- Where the word comes from, from every source that has an account of it, Nişanyan included for Turkish
- Arabic: the root, the classical dictionaries (al-Mufradat, Maqayis, Lisan al-Arab, al-Sihah) and the word in the Qur’an
- A popup from the / menu, or a widget pinned to a page
- Choose the languages it offers in Settings › Extensions
What changed
- 2.0.0October 21, 2026
- Arabic and Turkish, besides English: the letters you type pick the language, or a tap on EN, AR or TR.
- Every result says where the word comes from, from Wiktionary, Vikisözlük and, for Turkish, Nişanyan.
- Arabic adds the root, its articles in al-Mufradat, Maqayis, Lisan al-Arab and al-Sihah, and its ayahs with a translation. The dictionaries (about 45 MB) are downloaded once, when you first ask.
- Settings › Extensions chooses which languages sit beside the word box.
- The settings appear in Mecmua 1.4 and later; everything else works on earlier versions too.
- 1.1.0October 9, 2026
- Turkish: the page speaks Türkçe when you choose it in Settings › Appearance. Needs Mecmua 1.2.
- 1.0.1October 8, 2026
- The lookup popup no longer blinks while you type.
- 1.0.0October 2, 2026
- First release.