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There can be no doubt that...it is a basic tool for study of modern Arabic.

The reliability and completeness of the work deserve every praise, as does the practical arrangement of the entries.

Paperback:  1301 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0879500034
Author/Editor:  Hans Wehr (1993)

This convenient pocket dictionary--an abridged and updated edition of the acclaimed Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage--is designed for both the English speaker learning Arabic and the Arabic speaker learning English. It records the different levels of usage found in newspapers, radio, television, and films, providing major Arabic dialectal equivalents for familiar, colloquial, and slang words. Ideal for the student or traveler, the dictionary includes:

• Nearly 40,000 entries providing English headwords with multiple meanings and their nearest Arabic equivalent
• For Arabic speakers: phonetic equivalents for headwords, phrases illustrating unexpected and alien idioms, and explanations of headwords denoting concepts new to the Arab world
• Extensive examples of usage, showing how translations of words can vary according to context
• For English speakers: vowels and diacritics included in the Arabic text, irregular plurals of nouns, and simple verb conjugations in the imperfect tense
• Meticulously transcribed Arabic characters for easy reading

Hardcover:  461 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0198643217
Author/Editor:  N. S. Doniach (1982)

The Oxford Picture Dictionary, in monolingual and bilingual editions, has beautifully rendered illustrations of over 3,500 words. Based on extensive research, the Dictionary includes 140 essential topics arranged into 12 thematic units, and meets the language needs of beginning and intermediate, young adult and adult learners of American English. A Teacher's Book contains teaching tips, lesson plans, and vocabulary practice activities. The accompanying Focused Listening Cassette provides hours of listening practice, using the vocabulary in interesting and stimulating ways. Language Notes
Text: English, Arabic

Paperback:  2000 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0194361977
Author/Editor:  Norma Shapiro, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein (2000)

This dictionary is an essential resource for students of Arabic and English alike. It covers their needs with the most up-to-date entries in handy reference form, and will especially prove to be an aid in navigating the growing vocabulary of politics, telecommunications, technology, the Internet, tourism, business, and travel. Compact and concise, the dictionary includes more than 18,000 entries in clear, easy-to-read format the Arabic is provided with Romanised transliterations and the English with phonetic transliterations, while grammatical forms such as verb conjugations and plurals, are given for each word in both languages. The selection of current words and expressions and their practical arrangement make this a comprehensive and reliable dictionary that is not only a principal tool for the study of Modern Standard Arabic, bit also a perfect two-way portal for students of both Arabic and English.

Paperback:  400 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0781810450
Author/Editor:  Nicholas Awde, K. Smith (2004)

As the national language of nearly 20 countries in Africa and Asia, and spoken by approximately 190 million people, Arabic is the lingua franca of the Middle East. This title uses a standard Arabic helpful to those travelling all over the region. The emphasis is on commonly heard terms and phrases that are recognisable throughout the Arabic speaking world. Both the dictionary and phrasebook incorporate the Arabic script and its romanised transliteration. The two-way dictionary contains important travel, geographical, and cultural terminology, while the phrasebook focuses on the needs of travellers and covers almost every situation from arrival to departure.

Paperback:  224 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0781809738
Author/Editor:  Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar (2003)

Arabic-english Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage (Handbook of Oriental Studies) (Hardcover) by Elsaid M. Badawi (Author), Muhammad Abdel Haleen (Author)

Hardcover:  224 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  9004149481
Author/Editor:  by Elsaid M. Badawi (Author), ...