diff --git a/installer/data/mysql/atomicupdate/bug_38274.pl b/installer/data/mysql/atomicupdate/bug_38274.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..9936d3b335
--- /dev/null
+++ b/installer/data/mysql/atomicupdate/bug_38274.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+use Modern::Perl;
+use Koha::Installer::Output qw(say_warning say_failure say_success say_info);
+
+return {
+    bug_number  => "38274",
+    description => "Fix typo in arabic language description",
+    up          => sub {
+        my ($args) = @_;
+        my ( $dbh, $out ) = @$args{qw(dbh out)};
+
+        $dbh->do(q{ UPDATE language_descriptions SET description='العربية' WHERE subtag='ar' AND type='language' AND lang='ar' });
+    },
+};
diff --git a/installer/data/mysql/mandatory/subtag_registry.sql b/installer/data/mysql/mandatory/subtag_registry.sql
index 671c08bff3..6a052965ce 100644
--- a/installer/data/mysql/mandatory/subtag_registry.sql
+++ b/installer/data/mysql/mandatory/subtag_registry.sql
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ INSERT INTO language_rfc4646_to_iso639(rfc4646_subtag,iso639_2_code)
 VALUES ( 'ar','ara');
 
 INSERT INTO language_descriptions(subtag, type, lang, description)
-VALUES ( 'ar', 'language', 'ar', 'لعربية');
+VALUES ( 'ar', 'language', 'ar', 'العربية');
 
 INSERT INTO language_descriptions(subtag, type, lang, description)
 VALUES ( 'ar', 'language', 'en', 'Arabic');