diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libstemmer/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libstemmer/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..67d6d8d42ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libstemmer/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "libstemmer-2017-03-02";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "zvelo";
+    repo = "libstemmer";
+    rev = "78c149a3a6f262a35c7f7351d3f77b725fc646cf";
+    sha256 = "06md6n6h1f2zvnjrpfrq7ng46l1x12c14cacbrzmh5n0j98crpq7";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Snowball Stemming Algorithms";
+    homepage = "http://snowball.tartarus.org/";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fpletz ];
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 6531c4542c6..1a4eb7584a5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9901,6 +9901,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   libstartup_notification = callPackage ../development/libraries/startup-notification { };
 
+  libstemmer = callPackage ../development/libraries/libstemmer { };
+
   libstroke = callPackage ../development/libraries/libstroke { };
 
   libstrophe = callPackage ../development/libraries/libstrophe { };