moment.js year/number format with arabic locale

Question

I am formatting dates using moment.js with arabic locale (ar_SA) set.

moment.locale('ar_SA');
moment([2016,05,01]).format('MMM YYYY');
//output مايو ٢٠١٦

I would like to format only the month part using the locale, but the year in english, example: "مايو 2016" (the same as when formatting using the angular filter: | date:'MMM yyyy')

Is there a way to configure moment.js to do this automatically? (instead of splitting the month and year formatting and simply concatenating 2016 to .format('MMM'))

Answer 1

moment.updateLocale('en', {
    months : [
        "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
        "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"
    ]
});

Source: https://momentjs.com/docs/#/customization/month-names/