Arabic -Translation: Cordova - Part 3 (Approximately 1409 words)

Repository: https://github.com/apache/cordova

Crowdin link: https://crowdin.com/project/cordova

Arabic page: https://crowdin.com/project/cordova/ar#

Project details:

 “ Cordova or Apache Cordova is a framework used for native mobile applications development, it contains different APIs to facilitate the user's experience, but what's a native mobile app in the first place ?Well, it can regarded as a mobile app developed using only one mobile programming language using a very specific source code, for example if we developed a native app that works on Android phones, we should write a different code to have the same app working on iOS phones, if you think about it. That's definitely wasted energy !

 One can say, why we should develop native apps on the first place ? wouldn't be better to use a hybrid applications that work on several systems and cross-platforms ? That's true if you want to develop quickly the app but in terms of performance, native apps are way better, faster, have more features, have better access to the device native functions and offer bigger freedom in the choice of commands. What Cordova offers you is a chance of getting those benefits of the native apps and at the same time not wasting your energy and time on writing new source codes if you desire to extend your app. To achieve this task, Cordova allows their users to develop mobile apps using web programming languages (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript). In Apache Cordova's official site, the overview states that this project is destined for people which are: ” 

• - A mobile developer and want to extend an application across more than one platform, without having to re-implement it with each platform's language and tool set.
• - A web developer and want to deploy a web app that's packaged for distribution in various app store portals.
• - A mobile developer interested in mixing native application components with a WebView (special browser window) that can access device-level APIs, or if you want to develop a plugin interface between native and WebView components.

Why did I choose this project ?

“ Well for couple of reasons, first and foremost is because I intend to develop my own mobile app in the future, second I wanted a long project to take my time working on it and not having to choose another one for a while and finally because the project is really helpful for many developers.”  

Contribution Specifications:

From 19/01/2019 to 20/01/2019

The translation was done from English to Arabic language

For the third part of the project, I continued translating the cordova-cli/doc/readme.md. In order to have a solid framework and to have a better understanding of the work done, let's start clearing some fogs. Here's an update list with the new words I chose:

English	العربية	English	العربية
Parameter(s)	موسط - موسطات	Artifact	أدوات
Access	الولوج	Hook(s)	رابط - روابط
Assets	الوسائل	Proxy	البروكسي
Server	الخادم	Blanket(IT)	بطانية
Metadata	بيانات وصفية	Edit	تصحيح
Modify	تعديل	Attribute	ميزة
Widget	ودجة	Access	النفاذ
Wildcard	حرف بدل	Domain	نطاق
Script	برنامج نصي	Module	موديل
Emit	بعث	Stack	المكدس
Configuration	تشكيل	Compile	تصريف
cross compile	تصريف متقاطع	Server	سرفير
Shell	صدفة	Verbose	مطنب
Environment Variable	متغير البيئة	Parse	تحليل
Node	عقدة	Map to	تعين إلى
Telemetry	القياس عن بعد	Default Value	القيمة الافتراضية
Generate	إحداث	plugin(s)	ملحق-ملحقات
Disable	تعطيل	Element	العناصر
Command-line-interface	واجهة الأوامر النصية	Remove	إزالة
Delete	حذف	Download	تنزيل
Upload	رفع	Document(s)	مستند-مستندات
Default	إفتراضي	Pipe out	إظهار
Subdirectory	دليل فرعي	Code	شفرة
Source Code	الشفرات الأساسية	Overriding	تجاوز
Tag	وسم	Release	منشور
Patch	رقعة	Repository	مستودع
Save	حفظ	Symlink (V)	ربط
Symlink (N)	وصلة رمزية	Scope (N)	نطاق
Scope (V)	راقب	Uninstall	الغاء التثبيت
Hood	الغطاء	Fetch	حفر

The first thing I did is to follow the moderator's advice and find translations for the verb pipe out and the adjectif Default. I choose 'إظهار' for pipe out because it sounds more conveniant and doing so, I fixed a previous translation. For the word Default, I translated it 'إبتدائي' in the past which rised a conflict with the word Default value as I translated it into 'القيمة الإفتراضية', so I've decided to go along with 'إفتراضي' for the rest of the project. Symlink is a term in computing science, as a noun it means..

Any file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution.

However, symlink is also used as a verb which means 'To make accessible by means of a symbolic link'. So to avoid complicating things I chose 'ربط'. I also chose 'تجاوز' for the verb overriding and I corrected a previous string. As for release, the word 'منشور' sounds perfect for me because the word 'إصدار' (which is more accurate) is already chosen for the word 'version'.

Error report:

In this string https://crowdin.com/translate/cordova/4638/en-ar#91384, you can see that there's a grammatical error 'It will be be saved'.

Word count:

Total words = 1582

Untranslatable words and repeated strings ≈ 173

Final word count ≈ 1409

Proof of Authorship

My translation activities can be viewed in my Crowdin profile: https://crowdin.com/profile/Fancybrothers/activity