# Arabic stemmer and synonymous
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-stemmer-and-synonymous/107122
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 10, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-stemmer-and-synonymous/107122 "2017-11-10T01:20:29Z")
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### Author:  [@Manal\_ALnef](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Manal_ALnef)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-stemmer-and-synonymous/107122/1 "2017-11-10T01:20:29Z")
Hello everyone, I am doing a comparison between Elasticsearch and Apache Solr in handling the Arabic language
and I know that Solr use light 10 stemmer and doesn't have synonymous for Arabic, I see this answer [" Elasticsearch uses the snowball Arabic stemmer"](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improved-stemming-for-arabic/17172) about the stemmer but I don't find anything in the documentation so I am not sure.
what is the stemmer and does it have synonymous for Arabic?
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-stemmer-and-synonymous/107122/2 "2017-11-10T09:29:20Z")
Have you seen this link? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/analysis-lang-analyzer.html#arabic-analyzer](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/analysis-lang-analyzer.html#arabic-analyzer)
It shows the available arabic components are used to create the `arabic` analyzer.
Hope that helps!
--Alex
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### Author:  [@Manal\_ALnef](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Manal_ALnef)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-stemmer-and-synonymous/107122/3 "2017-11-10T13:09:39Z")
Thank you for your reply,
yes I have seen it but it doesn't mention information about the stemmer source
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2017, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-stemmer-and-synonymous/107122/4 "2017-11-13T08:28:30Z")
If you need to get more information, you best bet is either the lucene java doc on the arabic analyzer and stemmers or directly their source,
[https://lucene.apache.org/core/7\_1\_0/analyzers-common/index.html](https://lucene.apache.org/core/7_1_0/analyzers-common/index.html)
> **[apache/lucene-solr](https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/tree/master/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/ar)**
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> lucene-solr - Mirror of Apache Lucene + Solr
Hope this helps!
--Alex
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-stemmer-and-synonymous/107122/5 "2017-12-11T08:28:39Z")
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