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.
• Valentin Schindler, Lexicon Pentaglotton: Hebraicum, Chaldicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, et Arabicum, 1612. Arabic lemmas were printed in Hebrew characters.
• Franciscus Raphelengius, Lexicon Arabicum, Leiden 1613. The first printed dictionary of the Arabic language in Arabic characters.
• Jacobus Golius, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, Leiden 1653. The dominant Arabic dictionary in Europe for almost two centuries.
• Georg Freytag, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzubadiique et aliorum libris confectum I–IV, Halle 1830–1837
• Edward William Lane, Arabic–English Lexicon, 8 vols, London-Edinburgh 1863–1893. Highly influential, but incomplete (stops at Kaf)
• Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein, Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, Tome 1 (1846) & 2 (1850), G.-P. Maisonneuve (Paris).

Influential Arabic dictionaries in modern usage:

• English: Collins Dictionaries, Collins Essential - Arabic Essential Dictionary, Collins, Glasgow 2018.
• English: Lahlali, El Mustapha & Tajul Islam, A Dictionary of Arabic Idioms and Expressions: Arabic-English Translation, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2024.
• English: Oxford Languages, Oxford Arabic Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014.
• French: R. Blachère, C. Pellat, M. Chouémi, and C. Denizeau, Dictionnaire arabe-français-anglais (langues classique et moderne), Paris 1967 ff.
• French: D. Reig, As-Sabil, Dictionnaire arabe- français, français-arabe, Larousse, Paris, 1984.
• German (Classical Arabic): M. Ullmann, Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache I, kāf, Wiesbaden 1970; II/1-4, lām, Wiesbaden 1984–2009. Missing mÄ«m, nÅ«n, hā’, wāw, and yā’.
• German (Modern Standard Arabic): Hans Wehr, Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart. Arabisch-Deutsch, Wiesbaden 1952; 5th ed., 1985.
• English (translation of Hans Wehr): J Milton Cowan: Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Arabic-English, Wiesbaden 1971; 4th ed., 1979.
• Greek: G. Endress (ed.), A Greek and Arabic Lexicon, Leiden 1992 ff.
• Polish: J. Kozłowska and J. Danecki, Słownik arabsko-polski, Warszawa 1996 and J. Łacina, Słownik arabsko-polski, Poznań 1997.
• Russian: Ð¥.К. Баранов, Арабско-русский словарь, Moscow 1957; 6th ed., 1985.

Online dictionaries

• Alankaa
• Almaany
• معجم الرياض للغة العربية المعاصرة
• معجم الدوحة التاريخي للغة العربية
• المعجم التاريخي للغة العربية

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

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