---
id: "date_arabic"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["datetime"]
langs: ["ar"]
quality: 61
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/date_arabic"
---

# Date with a Arabic month name (`date_arabic`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Calendar date written in Arabic with the month name, day, month and year in the order of the CLDR long (d MMMM y) date formats of the ar locale. The month is the CLDR wide or abbreviated name in the format context, written exactly as CLDR gives it, including any dot or apostrophe; no extra capitalisation variants are accepted. The CLDR medium format (dd‏/MM‏/y) is numeric, so it is not covered here.

- Pattern of: `date`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Date and time (datetime)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Arabic (ar)

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]) (?:أكتوبر|ديسمبر|نوفمبر|فبراير|سبتمبر|يوليو|يناير|أبريل|أغسطس|يونيو|مايو|مارس) \d{4}$
```

## Examples

- `3 أكتوبر 2024` — 3 October 2024, CLDR long format d MMMM y
- `أكتوبر 2024` (invalid example)

## Sources

- other: <https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr-json/blob/main/cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/ar/ca-gregorian.json>

## Quality

Score 61/100. Missing: second example, authoritative source link, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/date_arabic.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/datetime/date_arabic.yaml>