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Paul Lunde (born 1943) was an American Arabist and writer. He wrote or translated many books on Islam and the Arab world, and also wrote a book on codes and another on organised crime. He was a frequent contributor to Aramco World, the in-house magazine of Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia.
Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms. [37] [38]
It has Arabic to English translations and English to Arabic, as well as a significant quantity of technical terminology. It is useful to translators as its search results are given in context. [6] Almaany offers correspondent meanings for Arabic terms with semantically similar words and is widely used in Arabic language research. [7]
Lisan al-Arab. Lisān al-ʿArab ( Arabic: لسان العرب, lit. 'The Tongue of the Arabs') is a dictionary of Arabic completed by Ibn Manzur in 1290.
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 ...
The Neo-Aramaic or Modern Aramaic languages are varieties of Aramaic that evolved during the late medieval and early modern periods, and continue to the present day as vernacular (spoken) languages of modern Aramaic-speaking communities. [ 1] Within the field of Aramaic studies, [ 2] classification of Neo-Aramaic languages has been a subject of ...
Al-Amthal. al-Amthal ( Arabic: أَمْثَال) is a literary term used to describe Arabic proverbs. [1] Ancient Arab scholars wrote books of compilations of proverbs, called "Kitab al-Amthal". [1] The most famous collection of medieval Arabic proverbs is Mjm’a Al’amthal by Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Maydani. [1]
Al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr, a historical dictionary intended to be encyclopedic in nature, was one of the most important tasks of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo from its inception, as laid out in the academy's foundational charter. [2] It was one of the two dictionaries the academy planned to publish from its founding in 1932, the other ...