Arabic Translation - Arabic to Georgian and Georgian to Arabic

This page covers written translation. For an interpreter at a meeting, a clinic or a notary, see the Arabic interpreter page.

We translate from and into Modern Standard Arabic, the language of official documents across the Arab world. Handwritten entries, local dialect in correspondence and country-specific legal terms are noted and handled separately, so that the translation reflects the document rather than a generic version of it.

Which Arabic documents we translate

Arabic into Georgian

Arabic documents come into Georgian mostly for Georgian universities, the Public Service Hall, the Public Registry, banks, notaries and clinics. Students from Arabic-speaking countries enrolling in Georgia need their school certificates and transcripts translated; investors need commercial licences and company documents; patients bring medical histories.

Arabic names, dates and numbers need particular care. Documents may use the Hijri calendar alongside or instead of the Gregorian one, Eastern Arabic numerals, and full chains of names including the father's and grandfather's. We reproduce all of them accurately, give Gregorian dates where the original uses Hijri ones, and match names to the Latin spelling in the passport.

Georgian into Arabic

Georgian documents go into Arabic for embassies of Arabic-speaking countries, employers in the Gulf, universities, courts and business partners. The translation is in formal Modern Standard Arabic, with terms matched to the recipient country where its legal vocabulary differs.

Georgian names are written in Arabic script by pronunciation, and the Latin passport spelling is given alongside, because Arabic script has no letters for several Georgian sounds and a name can be written in more than one way.

Arabic translation for embassies, visas and consular legalization

Some Arabic-speaking countries, including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Morocco and Tunisia, are parties to the Apostille Convention and accept an apostille. Many others still require consular legalization: the document is certified in Georgia, then by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then by the embassy of the destination country. The translation must fit into that chain at the right point.

The same applies in the other direction. An Arabic document for use in Georgia usually needs an apostille or legalization in its country of issue before it is translated here. We check the current status of the country concerned, because accession to the Convention does change. See apostille and legalization.

Right-to-left layout and document formatting

Arabic runs right to left, while Georgian and Latin text runs left to right. A translation into Arabic is laid out right to left, with numbers, dates, passport numbers and Latin names placed so they do not reverse or break across lines. A translation from Arabic follows the original's structure, so that each field can be matched with the source.

Tables, stamps and signatures are positioned as in the original. The result is a document that an Arabic-speaking official can read naturally and that a Georgian official can compare line by line with the source.

Legal, medical, business and technical Arabic

Which Arabic-speaking countries we prepare documents for

We regularly prepare documents for and from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Each has its own embassy requirements and its own preferred legal terminology, and we take both into account.

Documents from Iraq, including the Kurdistan Region, and from other countries where more than one language is used officially, are translated from the language they are actually written in. If a document is partly in Arabic and partly in another language, tell us and we will plan the translation accordingly.

Arabic translation with notarization

For official use in Georgia an Arabic translation is notarized. For use abroad, the notarized translation is then apostilled or legalized according to the destination country. See notarization.

How an Arabic translation order runs

Price and turnaround for Arabic translation

The price depends on the direction, the volume, the subject and the certification route. Legalization steps are quoted separately because they depend on the embassy concerned. See translation prices.

A standard certificate is usually ready within one or two working days. Consular legalization adds time that depends on the embassy, so start early if you have a deadline.

Frequently asked questions about Arabic translation

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