diff --git a/dev-python/translate-toolkit/Manifest b/dev-python/translate-toolkit/Manifest
index 4f2bd6e79fade..e93e05af8bddd 100644
--- a/dev-python/translate-toolkit/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/translate-toolkit/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST translate-3.15.6.gh.tar.gz 1176856 BLAKE2B 4d23c254f89b84098f0e97dd6ba726129cedda3fc7bf7fad6d3171b5e66817bbf07025d8d1c2f8e7a5d643903ddc13668909fd06888fbd6fa152c83734be8791 SHA512 7881c6aba835003efb67ab0cf1f1420d1d4928d62fa04a6f15a49f49a5bb4d42eadbc3ae9b7dbe3ecbd756333a054c41f1f0fd45d9f6aedba609931233b691b1
 DIST translate-3.16.2.gh.tar.gz 1182285 BLAKE2B bc61eb5ff86586582f2c78be292345cc4cda54cfbb6e6687a8c54cbaf4634933c464548b6f42d5da916d0e92596d61767d79f8a2db8c0013766b0361ba0b2ec4 SHA512 58571a096f51d159334ae6c7fb242d35e05fcefeb7ce3a5984d89d8c4ede714432694ad03895352ee3450f40cd587431a92763be225fe6f0e680378bb1336317
+DIST translate-3.16.3.gh.tar.gz 1182562 BLAKE2B 25ea88b5490891140670cdc384c9c1a318dce0085d6b9c8f6b1a7fbb0892a2e6eb80c26c02fa4890d3ec45c0d9c3958d7c3c4c33dba76d1ee03d977ee0a6863a SHA512 e2e59ca01769a88fd7c6367d0e1e8b96da9f950b600fc62eecae9aed4ad072877b1fd1a6742f0588b2b27d33f6652e98db4c90e63fb4d09481a651019beaee44
diff --git a/dev-python/translate-toolkit/translate-toolkit-3.16.3.ebuild b/dev-python/translate-toolkit/translate-toolkit-3.16.3.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..cff80ea02034c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/translate-toolkit/translate-toolkit-3.16.3.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} )
+PYTHON_REQ_USE="sqlite"
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+MY_P=translate-${PV}
+DESCRIPTION="Toolkit to convert between many translation formats"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/translate/translate/
+	https://pypi.org/project/translate-toolkit/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/translate/translate/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${MY_P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+S="${WORKDIR}"/${MY_P}
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
+IUSE="+html +ical +ini +subtitles +yaml"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	app-text/iso-codes
+	>=dev-python/chardet-3.0.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/cheroot[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/levenshtein-0.12.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/lxml-5.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/mistletoe-1.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/pyparsing-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/ruamel-yaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/wcwidth-0.2.14[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	sys-devel/gettext
+	html? ( dev-python/utidylib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	ical? ( dev-python/vobject[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	ini? ( >=dev-python/iniparse-0.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	subtitles? ( media-video/gaupol[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	yaml? ( dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+"
+# Technically, the test suite also has undeclared dependency
+# on dev-python/snapshottest but all the tests using it are broken
+# anyway, so we skip them.
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/phply[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
+EPYTEST_XDIST=1
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+
+	# strip unnecessary pins
+	sed -i -e 's:,<[0-9.]*::' pyproject.toml || die
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	# unfortunately, this bad quality package doesn't support XDG_DATA_DIRS
+	# correctly, so we need to reassemble all data files in a single directory
+	local -x XDG_DATA_HOME=${T}/share
+	cp -r translate/share "${T}/" || die
+	cp -r "${ESYSROOT}"/usr/share/gaupol "${XDG_DATA_HOME}"/ || die
+
+	distutils-r1_src_test
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	local EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+		# Fails with network-sandbox (and even with it off but w/ softer fail)
+		'tests/xliff_conformance/test_xliff_conformance.py::test_open_office_to_xliff'
+		'tests/xliff_conformance/test_xliff_conformance.py::test_po_to_xliff'
+		# all tests based on snapshottest are broken and I'm too tired
+		# to figure this out
+		tests/translate/tools/test_pocount.py::test_{cases,output}
+		tests/translate/tools/test_junitmsgfmt.py::test_output
+	)
+	local EPYTEST_IGNORE=(
+		# unpackaged fluent.*
+		tests/translate/storage/test_fluent.py
+		# changes directory and does not change it back, sigh
+		tests/odf_xliff/test_odf_xliff.py
+	)
+
+	if ! has_version "dev-python/iniparse[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"; then
+		EPYTEST_IGNORE+=(
+			translate/convert/test_ini2po.py
+			translate/convert/test_po2ini.py
+		)
+	fi
+
+	if ! has_version "media-video/gaupol[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"; then
+		EPYTEST_IGNORE+=(
+			translate/storage/test_subtitles.py
+		)
+	fi
+
+	epytest
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+
+	insinto /usr
+	doins -r translate/share
+
+	if ! use html; then
+		rm "${ED}"/usr/bin/{html2po,po2html} || die
+	fi
+	if ! use ical; then
+		rm "${ED}"/usr/bin/{ical2po,po2ical} || die
+	fi
+	if ! use ini; then
+		rm "${ED}"/usr/bin/{ini2po,po2ini} || die
+	fi
+	if ! use subtitles; then
+		rm "${ED}"/usr/bin/{sub2po,po2sub} || die
+	fi
+}