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A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic is an Arabic–English dictionary compiled by Hans Wehr and edited by J Milton Cowan.. First published in 1961 by Otto Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden, Germany, it was an enlarged and revised English version of Wehr's German Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart ("Arabic dictionary for the contemporary written language") (1952) and its ...
An English version, edited by J Milton Cowan and entitled A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, was published in 1961. [1] The dictionary used a new system of transliteration, which is today known as Hans Wehr transliteration . Wehr was a professor at the University of Münster from 1957 until his retirement in 1974. He died in Münster in 1981.
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.
The Hans Wehr transliteration system is a system for transliteration of the Arabic alphabet into the Latin alphabet used in the Hans Wehr dictionary (1952; in English 1961). The system was modified somewhat in the English editions. It is printed in lowercase italics.
Hans Wehr's Arabic dictionary defines ghayrah as: jealously; zeal, fervor, earnest concern, vigilant care, solicitude (على for); sense of honor, self-respect. It can be defined as a person's dislike of another's sharing in a right (which belongs to the former).
In 428 two-column pages, it covers a lexical range to which Edward William Lane devoted about 100 columns in his Arabic–English Lexicon and to which Hans Wehr devoted about sixteen in his Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. The Preface, تقديم (taqdim), describes the project the methods used. As von Grunebaum summarizes:
In the Arabic language, naskh (Arabic: نسخ) can be defined as abolition, abrogation, cancellation, invalidation, copying, or transcription, according to the Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. [19] As an Islamic term, there is a lack of agreement among scholars on what exactly al-Naskh is, (according to several sources).
Ẓāʾ is the rarest phoneme of the Arabic language. Out of 2,967 triliteral roots listed by Hans Wehr in his 1952 dictionary, only 42 (1.4%) contain ظ. [6] It is the only Arabic letter not used in any country names in Arabic.