List of Arabic dictionaries

Following are lists of notable Arabic dictionaries.

Explanatory dictionaries

Bilingual dictionaries

Influential Arabic dictionaries in Europe:

• Pedro de Alcalá, Vocabulista, 1505. A Spanish-Arabic glossary in transcription only.^[20]
• Valentin Schindler, Lexicon Pentaglotton: Hebraicum, Chaldicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, et Arabicum, 1612. Arabic lemmas were printed in Hebrew characters.^[20]
• Franciscus Raphelengius, Lexicon Arabicum, Leiden 1613. The first printed dictionary of the Arabic language in Arabic characters.^[20]
• Jacobus Golius, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, Leiden 1653. The dominant Arabic dictionary in Europe for almost two centuries.^[20]
• Georg Freytag, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzubadiique et aliorum libris confectum I–IV, Halle 1830–1837^[20]
• Edward William Lane, Arabic–English Lexicon, 8 vols, London-Edinburgh 1863–1893. Highly influential, but incomplete (stops at Kaf)^[20]

Influential Arabic dictionaries in modern usage:

• English: Collins Dictionaries, Collins Essential - Arabic Essential Dictionary, Collins, Glasgow 2018.^[21]
• English: Lahlali, El Mustapha & Tajul Islam, A Dictionary of Arabic Idioms and Expressions: Arabic-English Translation, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2024.^[22]
• English: Oxford Languages, Oxford Arabic Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014.^[23]
• French: R. Blachère, C. Pellat, M. Chouémi, and C. Denizeau, Dictionnaire arabe-français-anglais (langues classique et moderne), Paris 1963 ff.^[20]
• German (Classical Arabic): M. Ullmann, Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache I, kāf, Wiesbaden 1970; II/1-4, lām, Wiesbaden 1984–2009. Missing mīm, nūn, hā’, wāw, and yā’.^[20]
• German (Modern Standard Arabic): Hans Wehr, Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart. Arabisch-Deutsch, Wiesbaden 1952; 5th ed., 1985.^[20]
  • English (translation of Hans Wehr): J Milton Cowan: Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Arabic-English, Wiesbaden 1971; 4th ed., 1979.^[20]
• Greek: G. Endress (ed.), A Greek and Arabic Lexicon, Leiden 1992 ff.^[20]
• Polish: J. Kozłowska and J. Danecki, Słownik arabsko-polski, Warszawa 1996 and J. Łacina, Słownik arabsko-polski, Poznań 1997.^[20]
• Russian: Х.К. Баранов, Арабско-русский словарь, Moscow 1957; 6th ed., 1985.^[20]

Online dictionaries

• Almaany
• معجم الرياض للغة العربية المعاصرة

See also

• Dictionary
• List of Dutch dictionaries
• List of French dictionaries
• List of German dictionaries
• Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (Arabic-English/German dictionary)
• List of Arabic encyclopedias

Notes

1. The name means "Book of the Ayn (Letter)".
2. The name means "Book of the Jim (Letter)".
3. The name means "Collection of Language".
4. The name means "Refinement of Language".
5. The name means "Surrounding of The Language".
6. The name means "The crown of Language and the authentic of Arabic".
7. The name means "The arbitrator and the Great Ocean".
8. The name means "The tongue of the Arabs".
9. Al-Qamus al-Muhit means "The surrounding Ocean".
10. The Qamus - which may be derived from Greek okeanos became, and has remained, the commonest Arabic word for dictionary.
11. The name means "The bride's crown from the pearls of the Qamus (Ocean)".
12. The name means "Circumference of the Ocean".

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