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Following are lists of notable Arabic dictionaries.
Explanatory dictionaries
| Title | Author | Date | Vocabulary | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Kitab al-'Ayn
[n 1] ( Arabic: كتاب العين) |
Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ( Arabic: الخليل بن أحمد الفراهيدي) (b. 718 - d. 791) |
8th century | Kitab al-Ayn was the first dictionary for the Arabic language. [1] | |
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Kitab al-Jim
[n 2] ( Arabic: كتاب الجيم) a.k.a. Kitab al-Lughat or Kitab al-Huruf |
Abu Amr al-Shaybani ( Arabic: أبو عمرو الشيباني) (b. ca. 738 - d. 828) |
8-9th century | The only copy is in the El Escorial Library. [2] | |
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Al-Jamhara al-Lugha
[n 3] ( Arabic: جمهرة اللغة) a.k.a. Al-Jamhara fi al-Lugha (The all-embracing in language) [3] |
Ibn Duraid
[4] ( Arabic: ابن دريد) (b. 838 - d. 933) |
9-10th century | The dictionary was inspired in part by the earlier dictionary Kitab al-Ayn of al-Farahidi. [5] | |
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Tahdhib al-Lugha
[n 4] ( Arabic: تهذيب اللغة) |
Abu Manshur al-Azhari al-Harawi ( Arabic: أبو منصور الأزهري الهروي) (b. 895 - d. 981) |
10th century | The dictionary is important as a source of the Lisan al-Arab. [6] | |
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Al-Muhit fi al-Lugha
[n 5] ( Arabic: المحيط في اللغة) |
Al-Sahib ibn Abbad ( Arabic: الصاحب بن عبّاد) (b. 938 - d. 995) |
10th century | ||
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Taj al-Lugha wa Sihah al-Arabiyya
[n 6] ( Arabic: تاج اللغة وصحاح العربية) shorter title: Taj al-Lugha or al-Sihah |
Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari ( Arabic: إسماعيل بن حماد الجوهري) (b. ? - d. 1009) |
10-11th century | It contains about 40,000 dictionary entries. [7] | The author died at Nishapur while attempting flight. [8] |
| Mu`jam Maqayis al-Lugha [9]( Arabic: معجم مقاييس اللغة; "Language Standards Compendium) | Ahmad Ibn Zakariyya al-Qazwini Ibn Faris | 11th century | ||
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Al-Muhkam wa al-Muhit al-A'zam
[n 7] ( Arabic: المحكم والمحيط الأعظم) shorter title: Al-Muhkam |
Ibn Sidah ( Arabic: ابن سيده) (b. 1007 - d. 1066) |
11th century | The author was a blind man. [10] | |
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Lisan al-Arab
[n 8] ( Arabic: لسان العرب) |
Ibn Manzur ( Arabic: ابن منظور) (b. 1233 - d. 1312) |
The dictionary was completed in 1290. [11] | It contains about 80,000 dictionary entries. [12] |
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| Al-Misbah al-munir [9]( Arabic: المصباح المنير ; "The Enlightening Lamp") | Ahmed Al Maqri Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Ali Al Maqri Al Fayoumi | The dictionary dates to 1368 | ||
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Al-Qamus al-Muhit wa al-Qabus al-Wasit
[n 9]
[n 10] ( Arabic: القاموس المحيط، والقابوس الوسيط; "The Encompassing Ocean/Lexicon") shorter title: Al-Qamus al-Muhit |
Al-Firuzabadi ( Arabic: الفيروزآبادي) (b. 1329 - d. 1414) |
The dictionary was completed in 1410. [13] | It contains about 60,000 dictionary entries. [14] | The dictionary served as the basis of later European dictionaries of Arabic. [15] |
| Ahkam Bab al-I`rab `n Lughat al-A`rab ( Arabic: أحكام باب الإعراب عن لغة الأعراب)[ citation needed] | Germanus Farhat (1670–1732) | Printed by Rashid Dahdah (1813–1889) | A revision of Fairuzabadi’s Al-Qamus Al-Muheet. Arranged by word ending. | |
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Taj al-Arus Min Jawahir al-Qamus
[n 11] ( Arabic: تاج العروس) shorter title: Taj al-Arus |
Abu al-Fayd Mohammad Murtada al-Zabidi
[9] ( Arabic: أبو الفيض محمد مرتضى الزبيدي b. 1731 - d. 1790) |
The dictionary was completed in 1774. [16] | It contains about 120,000 dictionary entries. [16] | |
|
Muhit al-Muhit
[n 12] ( Arabic: محيط المحيط) a.k.a. Qutr al-Muhit (The Diameter of the Ocean) [17] |
Butrus al-Bustani ( Arabic: بطرس البستاني) (b. 1819 - d. 1883) |
The dictionary was completed in 1870. [17] | The author had dedicated the work to the Sultan Abdulaziz. The sultan awarded him with a higher medal and 250 golden liras. [18] | |
| Al-Faraed Al-Hissan Min Qalaed Al-Lisan ( Arabic: الفرائد الحسان من قلائد اللسان) | Ibrahim al-Yaziji ( Arabic: إبراهيم اليازجي; b. 1847 - d. 1907) | 1870 | ||
| Matn al-Lugha (Corpus of the language) [19] |
Ahmad Rida ( Arabic: أحمد رضا) (b. 1872 - d. 1953) |
1958 | ||
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Lexicon of the Modern Arabic Language ( Arabic: معجم اللغة العربية المعاصرة) |
Ahmad Mukhtar Omar | 2008 |
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
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
- ^ The name means "Book of the Ayn (Letter)".
- ^ The name means "Book of the Jim (Letter)".
- ^ The name means "Collection of Language".
- ^ The name means "Refinement of Language".
- ^ The name means "Ocean in Language".
- ^ The name means "The crown of Language and the authentic of Arabic".
- ^ The name means "The arbitrator and the Great Ocean".
- ^ The name means "The tongue of the Arabs".
- ^ Al-Qamus al-Muhit means "The surrounding Ocean".
- ^ The Qamus - which may be derived from Greek okeanos became, and has remained, the commonest Arabic word for dictionary.
- ^ The name means "The bride's crown from the pearls of the Qamus (Ocean)".
- ^ The name means "Circumference of the Ocean".
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