The Fusha app: an Arabic dictionary that teaches you the word

11 August 2026

Fusha is a mobile app for learning Quran and Modern Standard Arabic, one word at a time. It looks like a dictionary and behaves like a teacher: every word you look up becomes a full card — vocalised spelling, root, meanings, grammar, example — and then comes back in daily practice until it is yours. Completely free. Here is how it works.

Look up anything, in either language

Type an English word or an Arabic one; with harakat or without; a dictionary form or the conjugated plural you just met in a text. The hard part of Arabic dictionaries — reducing what you typed to the form the dictionary actually files — Fusha does for you, and it tells you what relation your input had to the answer, so a lookup teaches instead of silently correcting.

A card, not a translation pair

"Kitab = book" is a flashcard, not knowledge. A Fusha card gives you the word as Arabic actually carries it:

• The vocalised form — full harakat, so pronunciation is never a guess.
• The root and its family — one lookup plants five related words.
• Meanings with grammar worth knowing — gender, plural, the notes that save you later.
• A translated example sentence — how the word behaves, not just what it equals.
• Synonyms and an explanation in Arabic — reading practice hiding inside a dictionary entry.

Cards are generated with AI and shared between learners, so a word is generated once and then loads instantly for everyone after — and a report button on every card puts a human on anything that looks off.

Lookups become practice, automatically

The words you look up are, by definition, the words you did not know — exactly the ones worth practising. Fusha saves every lookup and builds a daily session out of your collection: a smart mix that favours weak words, words due for review, and words you have been avoiding. Answer a handful of questions, keep your streak alive, and the app quietly does the spaced-repetition bookkeeping that most learners abandon by week two.

Built for Quran Arabic

Fusha is aimed at the standard register — fusha, the Arabic of the Quran and of reading — not at any single dialect. That shows in the details: full harakat everywhere, forgiving search when you type a bare alif where the text had a hamza, and a Quran vocabulary course that works through the text's most frequent words first, so early effort pays off in verses you actually recognise. A word-first routine, with the bookkeeping done for you.

Common questions

Is the Fusha app free?

Yes — completely free: lookups, cards, practice, courses. No account upsell waiting behind the third screen.

Does it work offline?

Every word you have looked up stays available offline, and your collection syncs across devices. Only looking up a brand-new word needs a connection.

Which languages does it speak?

The app's interface — and your cards — come in eight languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish and Russian.

Where do I get it?

Fusha is rolling out on iPhone and Android now. Leave your email on the homepage and you will get it the moment it is live in your store.