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Arabic Language, Linguistics & Literature

A guide to Arabic language and literature resources.

Modern Standard Arabic Language Dictionaries

Modern Standard Arabic dictionaries are listed first in this box; see the box below for Classical Arabic dictionaries.

For Arabic-Arabic dictionaries, use the subject: Arabic language -- Dictionaries
For Arabic-English/English-Arabic dictionaries, use the subject: Arabic language -- Dictionaries -- English
- Follow the same pattern for bilingual Arabic dictionaries for other languages.

Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic by Hans Wehr
Call Number: LAU Ref Desk PJ6640 .W43 1979
Standard dictionary of modern Arabic, Arabic-English.
Also several copies in Lau Stacks.
Mawrid al-akbar : qāmūs Inkilīzī-ʻArabī ḥadīth = Mawrid Al-Akbar : a modern English-Arabic dictionary = المورد الأكبر : قاموس إنكليزي - عربي حديث by Munīr Baʻlabakkī
Call Number: LAU Ref Stacks PJ6640 .B354 2004x
By Munīr Baʻlabakkī. Standard English-Arabic dictionary. Frequently revised.
al-Muʻjam al-ʻArabī wa-taḥaddiyāt al-ʻaṣr : bibliyūghrāfiyah mukhtārah by Institut du monde arabe (France). Bibliothèque
Call Number: LAU Stacks Z7052 .I578 2004
Muʻjam al-kabīr by Majmaʻ al-Lughah al-ʻArabīyah (Cairo, Egypt)
Call Number: LAU Stacks PJ6622 .M28

Classical Arabic Dictionaries

An Arabic-English lexicon / Edward William Lane
LAU Reference PJ6640 .L3 1955
First published over 150 years ago, it is a very scholarly work of Arabic lexicography. Often referred to as "Lane's Lexicon"
Available online here and here.
Kitāb al-ʻAyn / Khalīl ibn Aḥmad
LAU Stacks PJ6620 .K47 1980
Early Arabic-Arabic dictionary
Kitāb al-Mukhaṣṣaṣ / Ibn Sīdah, ʻAlī ibn Ismāʻīl
LAU Stacks PJ6620 .I22
Lisān al-ʻArab / Ibn Manẓūr, Muḥammad ibn Mukarram
LAU Stacks PJ6620 .I154 2003
Medieval Arabic-Arabic dictionary. 9 vols.
Lisān al-ʻArab al-muḥīt
LAU Stacks Quarto PJ6620 .I56 1980
Updated edition of Ibn Manzur's work with al-Muṣṭalaḥāt al-ʻilmīyah wa-al-fannīyah by Majmaʻ al-Lughah al-ʻArabīyah bi-Dimashq
Lisān al-ʻArab al-muḥīṭ
LAU Stx Quarto PJ6620 .I56 1988
Reprint in 7 vols.
al-Ṣiḥāḥ : tāj al-lughah wa-ṣiḥāḥ al-ʻArabīyah / Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād
LAU Stacks PJ6620 .J39 1984
al-Qāmūs al-muḥīt / Fīrūzābādī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb
LAU Stacks PJ6620 .F53
LAU Stacks PJ6620 .F5 1970z
Dictionnaire arabe-français = Qāmūs al-lughatayn al- ʻArabīyah wa-al-Faransīyah by Albert de Biberstein-Kazimirski
LAU Stacks PJ6645.F6 B52 1970
Available online: volume 1 and volume 2
Tāj al-ʻarūs / Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
LAU Stacks Quarto PJ6620 .M852 1966

Qu'ran Dictionaries

Also search for the subject Koran Dictionaries in HoyaSearch

Arabic-English Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage / Badawi, El-Said M
Call Number: LAU Stacks BP133 .B23 2008
Dictionary and glossary of the Kor-ân, with copious grammatical references and explanations of the text: Arabic-English / Penrice, John
Call Number: LAU Stacks PJ6696.Z8 P4 1960z
Dictionary of the Holy Qurʻân : Arabic words, English meanings : with notes / Omar, Abdul Mannân
Call Number: LAU Ref Stacks BP133 .O43 2003
Qāmūs al-Qurʼān al-Karīm : muʻjam al-alfāẓ al-ḥaḍārīyah
Call Number: LAU Stacks BP133 .Q35 2002
Compiled by Muʼassasat al-Kuwayt lil-Taqaddum al-ʻIlmī (Kuwait)

Online Dictionaries

Arabterm Technisches Worterbuch
Multilingual (Arabic, English, French, German) specialized dictionaries.
Project of Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) project in partnership with ALECSO
Dict.info Arabic Dictionaries
A free bilingual dictionary for Arabic and other language combinations. Browsable online, with word searches, and downloadable data files.
Ectaco Online Arabic-English Dictionary
Arabic-English bilingual dictionary; site also includes 21 other languages.
Google Translate: Arabic-English
LingvoSoft Arabic-English Online Dictionary
Bilingual Arabic-English dictionary; site also includes a multilingual dictionary with 25 languages

Concordances

Concordance of the Quran by Kassis, Hanna E.
Call Number: LAU Ref Stacks BP133 .K37 1983
Also available online in Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Muʻjam al-Nūr li-maʻānī alfāẓ al-Qurʼān al-karīm bi-al-Fārisīyah : [ʻArabī- Fārisī] by ʻAbd al-Munʻim, Muḥammad Nūr al-Dīn
Call Number: LAU Stacks BP133 .A23 2008

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