@Kaios: Pokemon wasn't even a thing back in the 80s.

@MarqFJA87 : Same, maybe it was old dubs, in the 80's?

That's certainly one way to get around it.

... Which Arabic dub did the author watch? Because I distinctly remember the one that I watched in the 90s / early 2000s, and it had no trouble with using the Arabic word for "evolve"; I believe it's because the same word is used to mean "to develop", and the whole thing seemed akin to a flashy version of the biological process of metamorphosis.