Point at anything. Learn its name in Arabic.

Musamma names the things around you in Modern Standard Arabic, with every vowel mark written in, so you can read the word on your very first day.

Two slices of toast on a plate, cut out as a sticker

خُبْزٌ مُحَمَّصٌ

toastkhubzun muḥammaṣun

Point your camera at it.

A mug, a chair, your breakfast. Musamma finds the object in the frame, cuts it out, and tells you what it is called in Arabic.

  1. aAim. Frame one object. A label follows it while you move.
  2. bSnap. You get its Arabic name with the vowels, plus the English.
  3. cRead. An example sentence shows the word in use.

Read it before you can read Arabic.

Arabic is usually printed without its short vowels, which leaves beginners guessing. Musamma always writes them in. On this page each mark wears its own colour, so you can see what it does.

خُبْزٌ مُحَمَّصٌ

toastkhubzun muḥammaṣun

Tap any word in the sentence.

Every name comes with a short example sentence. Tap a word to see what it means, what kind of word it is, and the three-letter root it grows from.

Tap on a word to learn more

I ate toast in the morning.

Choose any Arabic word above.

Keep what you find.

Each scan becomes a sticker in your own vocabulary, saved on your phone. Your kitchen turns into your first word list.

Doughnut sticker
كَعْكَةٌdoughnut
Flowerpot sticker
أَصِيصٌflowerpot
Toast sticker
خُبْزٌ مُحَمَّصٌtoast
  • Swipe through themOpen a sticker and swipe to the next word you saved.
  • Search both waysFind a word by typing English or Arabic, with or without vowels.
  • Go deeper on a wordIts root and word family, more examples, and audio you can slow down.

اِبْدَأْ

ibda’, “start”

Start with the room you’re in.

Everything you see already has an Arabic name. Musamma helps you learn it, one object at a time.