diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 563794e6a4..a359154836 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -335,3 +335,9 @@ option('windows-version',
   value : 'win7',
   description : 'When host_machine is windows, compile the efl with the specified version of Windows'
 )
+
+option('dictionaries-hyphen-dir',
+  type : 'string',
+  value : '/usr/share/hyphen/',
+  description : 'Put the path to hyphen dictionaries directory'
+)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/lib/evas/meson.build b/src/lib/evas/meson.build
index 10b6fcd920..1b306c363e 100644
--- a/src/lib/evas/meson.build
+++ b/src/lib/evas/meson.build
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ if (get_option('hyphen'))
      evas_deps += cc.find_library('hyphen')
    endif
    evas_deps += hyphen
-   config_h.set_quoted('EVAS_DICTS_HYPHEN_DIR', '/usr/share/hyphen')
+   config_h.set_quoted('EVAS_DICTS_HYPHEN_DIR', get_option('dictionaries-hyphen-dir'))
 endif
 
 subdir('include')