# Arabic Language phonetic search is not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-language-phonetic-search-is-not-working/40223>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 27, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-language-phonetic-search-is-not-working/40223 "2016-01-27T11:56:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![chalapathi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/41988e/32.png) [@chalapathi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chalapathi)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-language-phonetic-search-is-not-working/40223/1 "2016-01-27T11:56:16Z")

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Hi,

I am new to ElasticSearch, I have create a new index "his" and installed Phonetic Analysis "bin/plugin install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-analysis-phonetic/2.7.0" post this I have updated my settings as below

{  
"his": {  
"settings": {  
"index": {  
"creation\_date": "1453719836226",  
"analysis": {  
"filter": {  
"arabic\_stop": {  
"type": "stop",  
"stopwords": "\_none"  
},  
"dbl\_metaphone": {  
"type": "phonetic",  
"encoder": "double\_metaphone"  
},  
"german\_stop": {  
"type": "stop",  
"stopwords": "_none_"  
}  
},  
"analyzer": {  
"german": {  
"filter": [  
"lowercase",  
"german\_stop"  
],  
"tokenizer": "standard"  
},  
"arabic": {  
"filter": [  
"lowercase",  
"arabic\_stop",  
"arabic\_normalization"  
],  
"tokenizer": "standard"  
},  
"dbl\_metaphone": {  
"filter": "dbl\_metaphone",  
"tokenizer": "standard"  
}  
}  
},  
"number\_of\_shards": "5",  
"number\_of\_replicas": "1",  
"uuid": "-mYm5v6pTvm4guMsxrzq1A",  
"version": {  
"created": "2010199"  
} } } }  
}  
Am i missing anything here, coz the German and English Phonetic search is working fine, however the Arabic Phonetic search is not working, I have used arabic similar shound words from "[http://www.byki.com/lists/arabic/arabic-pronunciation-training-similar-sounding-letters-words.html](http://www.byki.com/lists/arabic/arabic-pronunciation-training-similar-sounding-letters-words.html)"

here are my type and its mappings- type is "patient" mapping details are as below.

{  
"his": {  
"mappings": {  
"patient": {  
"properties": {  
"address": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"age": {  
"type": "double"  
},  
"city": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"dob": {  
"type": "date",  
"format": "strict\_date\_optional\_time||epoch\_millis"  
},  
"email": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"firstname": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"lastname": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"name": {  
"type": "string",  
"fields": {  
"phonetic": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "dbl\_metaphone"  
}  
}  
},  
"phone": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"searchfield": {  
"type": "string"  
},  
"website": {  
"type": "string"  
} } } } }  
}

Please help to fix arabic phonetic search , is double metaphone doesn't support Arabic language Phonetic Search?

Thanks,  
Chala.

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**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-language-phonetic-search-is-not-working/40223/2 "2017-07-05T23:21:08Z")

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