DeepL
A focused translation service with explicit Arabic, Sorani, and Kurmanji support and important free-versus-Pro privacy differences.
Only approved or redacted sensitive material
Never put personal, confidential, or case material into the free translator. Redact it, use an approved DeepL Pro account, or translate locally. The paid account does not remove the need for bilingual review.
A safer tool to use instead
DeepL
A translation website you paste text into, then read it back in Arabic, Sorani, Kurmanji or English.
First thing to tryTranslate a public 100-word announcement into Sorani, then ask a fluent colleague to mark the wrong names, dates and institutional terms.
CostFree text translation and limited document use cost nothing, and no Pro price and no organisational discount programme are recorded here, so check the plans page yourself.
Do this with it
No prompt in the library names this tool yet.
Plain verdict
A useful translation draft and comparison tool. Its free service must not receive personal or confidential data, and smooth wording can still be wrong.
Good for
Public notices, public reports, terminology comparison, and a first pass between Modern Standard Arabic, Sorani, Kurmanji, and supported languages.
Avoid for
Unredacted testimony, legal filings, personal data on the free service, Iraqi-dialect interpretation without testing, or final rights-sensitive wording.
Data lane
Cloud. DeepL’s free-service terms permit service-improvement use and prohibit confidential or personal data. DeepL Pro states submitted text is not permanently stored or used to improve the service.
Ten-minute safe trial
Translate a public 100-word announcement. Ask a fluent colleague to mark names, dates, institutional terms, ambiguous verbs, and any shift in certainty. Compare the result with one independent translation.
Human check
A bilingual reviewer approves the final text. Preserve original names and quotations, and keep a short terminology list for repeated institutional language.
Safer or constraint-based alternatives
For sensitive material, redact first, use an approved Pro account, or use a tested local model through OllamaOllamaOnly approved or redacted sensitive materialOpen sourceMITHas a free version: Running downloaded models locally is free and limited by RAM, storage, and processor speed. Cloud access has separate account and usage terms.View tool. For high-stakes text, commission a qualified human translator.
What happens to your data
Where this data goes
- DeepL cloud systems
Trains on what you type?
Depends on the plan or account type.
How long it is kept
DeepL's free-service terms allow submitted content and corrections to be processed for service improvement and prohibit confidential or personal data. DeepL Pro states submitted text is not permanently stored or used to improve the service.
Account required
No account is needed.
Getting it, and using it in Iraq
Access in Iraq
No complete first-party Iraq billing guarantee was found. Basic browser access should be tested before the workshop.
Language quality
No one has published a measurement for this.
Arabic (Modern Standard)
DeepL explicitly lists Arabic, Kurdish Kurmanji, and Kurdish Sorani. It describes Arabic as Modern Standard Arabic. Support is not a measured quality result. Test a short sample with a fluent reviewer.
Iraqi Arabic
No current first-party benchmark for Iraqi Arabic was found. Test the exact dialect and task with a fluent reviewer.
Kurdish (Sorani)
No current first-party quality benchmark for Sorani was found. Do not infer quality from general multilingual claims.
Sources
- DeepL Translator languagesDeepL
- Privacy PolicyDeepL
- DeepL plansDeepL
Last checked: 2026-09-01