Arabic Studies

The Oxford Arabic Dictionary is the most authoritative English-Arabic/ Arabic-English dictionary ever published. Based on real modern evidence and computational analysis of hundreds of millions of words in both English and Modern Standard Arabic (the standardized variety of Arabic used in writing and most formal speech), the dictionary boasts more than 130,000 words and phrases and 200,000 translations. This up-to-date resource has been designed for both Arabic and English native speakers and includes the latest vocabulary from computing, business, the media, and the arts, across both languages.

First published in 1961 by Otto Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden, Germany, it was an enlarged and revised English version of Wehr's German Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart ("Arabic dictionary for the contemporary written language") (1952) and its Supplement (1959). Writing in the 1960s, a critic comments, "Of all the dictionaries of modern written Arabic, the work [in question] ... is the best."

published in the US of A, "the best" for translation and for students

an Arabic-English dictionary compiled by Edward William Lane (died 1876). It was published in eight volumes during the second half of the 19th century.

includes three editions of the Encyclopedia of Islam, l'Encyclopédie de l'Islam, and the Historical Atlas of Islam

a collection of vocabularies and lexicons, some historical

comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics; interdisciplinary in scope and representative of different schools and approaches in order to be as objective and versatile as possible

Courtesy Michelle Fullwood maf@mit.edu a graduate student in linguistics at MIT. She works on problems in formal phonology and computational morphology, and likes to code, especially in Python.

internationally-accepted transliteration schemes

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