Tag: arabic
All the articles with the tag "arabic".
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Guide · Ismi Is this baby name in the Quran? How to check a name's meaning and source properly
A practical method for verifying a Muslim baby name: find the Arabic root, look it up in the Quranic Arabic Corpus, distinguish a real occurrence from a look-alike word, and check the meaning against a dictionary rather than a forum. Plus the app that has already done this for 1,826 names.
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Why it exists · Marjai Why I built Marjai: 1,463 rulings, verbatim, offline, and no AI anywhere near the text
Scraping Sayyid Sistani's al-Masail al-Muntakhaba from the official site and proving zero mismatches, why the source's own numbering typo was kept, Arabic search that ignores diacritics and hamza forms, the decision to stay Arabic-only, and shipping iOS and Android from one Compose Multiplatform codebase.
- Why it exists · Ismi
Why I built Ismi: a baby-names app where every meaning has a source
Most Islamic baby-name apps ship meanings copied from each other, some of them wrong. How Ismi's names pipeline works — Wikidata harvest, Quran citation verification against the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an LLM judge that rejects homographs like 'Matt → he died' — why the app is sect-neutral, and why it ships two native apps from one dataset.