العربية · Arabic alphabet
Arabic Translation
Written from right to left, so the page layout and the date format have to be reworked. The Gulf states require a licensed translation office.
Prices are starting per-page rates on economy delivery.
Turkish ↔ Arabic translation
Language pair
Turkish into Arabic and back again; the unit rates differ according to which way the work runs.
Level of certification
The sworn translator’s seal is included; notarisation and apostille are separate items.
Delivery
Economy, standard and express options.
Document types
Civil status, diploma, contract, medical and commercial documents.
Translation between Arabic and other languages
We also translate directly between two foreign languages, without routing the text through Turkish. Each pair has its own page giving the per-page rate and the estimated turnaround for that combination.
Which countries accept a Arabic translation?
The same language is subject to a different certification regime from one country to the next. Choose the country your document is going to:
The written standard and local usage
Written documents in Arabic are drawn up in a single shared written standard, and the local forms used in everyday speech never enter an official text under any circumstances. That division looks as though it ought to make translation easier, but the real difficulty lies elsewhere: inside that one written standard, legal and administrative terminology shifts from region to region.
A contract term defined in the legislation of one country may have no counterpart at all in another; company types, the individual items of an employment contract and land registry procedures are the clearest examples. This is why the country a document is going to has to be known before translation begins.
The vocabulary rests on a system of roots and patterns: words derived from one root carry related meanings, and terms are coined within that system. Rather than inventing an equivalent, the task is to find the form already established in the official publications of the country concerned.
Chains of names against Turkish documents
On identity documents from this region a person’s name often runs to four links: their own name, their father’s, their grandfather’s and the family name. A Turkish passport carries two fields. When the fields do not line up, the father’s name can end up in the surname box and a middle name in the second link, and the person is then nowhere to be found in the record.
The solution is not to invent the missing links but to present the fields of the Turkish document under their own labels. The father’s and mother’s names in the civil register stay on separate lines, and no attempt is made to force them into the four-link arrangement used on the other side.
| Point | Frequent mistake | Correct practice |
|---|---|---|
| Name fields | Putting the father’s name in the surname box | Presenting each field under its own label |
| Calendar | Settling for one calendar | Naming the calendar used on the document and giving the equivalent |
| Numerals | Mixing the two sets of digits | Staying with one set throughout the document |
| Company type | Borrowing another country’s term | Taking the term used in the destination country’s legislation |
Which documents are in heaviest demand
Work and residence files come first; the employment contract, diploma, professional certificates and medical report are submitted together, and these papers usually pass through a long chain of attestation. Since the name is expected to be spelled identically at every step of that chain, consistency is the single most critical property of the translation.
The second area is healthcare: treatment plans, operation reports, test results and discharge summaries. The third is trade, where letter-of-credit correspondence, agency and distributorship agreements, and conformity and halal certificates make up a steady volume. The fourth is education, and the fifth property and family matters.
More than one language in the source document
A good share of the documents arriving from this region are not monolingual. Identity cards, trade registry records and employment contracts are frequently printed in two languages, and the stamp may be in one language while the signature line is in another.
Small differences between the two versions of such a document are perfectly normal: an entry that appears in one may be abbreviated in the other. The translation does not resolve that difference on its own authority; it states which version has been taken as the basis and notes the discrepancy where there is one.
With documents going out from Türkiye the situation is the other way round: the receiving institution sometimes wants a monolingual presentation and sometimes a bilingual one. If that preference is not established at the outset, the document is prepared twice and the chain of attestation is drawn out for nothing.
Calendars and numerals
Two calendars are in use side by side in the region, and official documents frequently carry both. In translation the date on the document is carried across with the calendar it belongs to stated explicitly; where an equivalent is to be given, it has to rest on calculation rather than guesswork. Writing only one of the two dates leaves the date of issue open to argument.
Two separate sets of numerals are in use, and the preference varies from country to country. What matters is staying with one set throughout the document and carrying the numbers of the source across without rewriting them. Amounts are not converted; they stay in the currency of the source.
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