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Home - Arabic Language Learning Instruction Book : Arabic English Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic
by Hans Wehr, J. Milton Cowan (Editor) Paperback: 1301 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.63 x 8.56 x 5.35 Publisher: Spoken Language Services; 4th edition (May 1, 1993) ISBN: 0879500034 Journal of American Oriental Society: Its comprehensiveness and reliability...have made it the principal aid for study of written Arabic Middle East Journal: There can be no doubt that...it is a basic tool for study of modern Arabic. Bibliotheca Orientalis: The reliability and completeness of the work deserve every praise, as does the practical arrangement of the entries. Book Description: Its scholarship, accuracy and reliability make it one of the most significant contributions to Arabic lexicography. It is hoped that this masterpiece will point the way ot wider use of modern lexicographical principles in the compilation of dictionaries for earlier periods of the Arabic language. From the Inside Flap: This edition of the Dictionary, published eighteen years after its first appearance is an enlarged and improved version of it original corpus. During the past two decades, the Dictionary has achieved widespread acceptance and use. In the interim, modern written Arabic has continued to exhibit vigorous lexical growth. Therefore, feeling the need to fill in many gaps and update the corpus, the author again undertook systematic collection of material. In addition to many neologisms of recent origin, the author has incorporated much older material attested in present-day contexts, which had not yet appeared in the Dictionary, as well as numerous improvements and corrections. The result is this revised 4th edition has nearly 200 new pages. All new entries have been derived from primary sources, i.e. from running contexts. The source texts, predominately from the last ten years, cover a broad spectrum of content, style and origin, thereby providing a representative cross section of modern usage encountered in various fields such as technology, economics, sports, medicine, the oil industry and the natural sciences, as well as creative literature. Particular use was made of texts from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia which were drawn from newspapers, periodicals, textbooks, official and private documents and belles-lettres; some use was also made of the press of the northwest African countries. The number of new entries, including lemmata as well as compounds, idiomatic phrases and new definitions of head words, runs to approximately 13,000. Moreover, in about 3,000 instances, smaller additions (new transcriptions, plural forms, prepositional government of verbs, cross-references, etc.) have been inserted, errors corrected, obsolete entries eliminated. Some lemmata have been completely reworked. Customer Reviews Great Dictionary, April 1, 2003 Reviewer: 3rdchance from Forest Hills, NY USA Probably the best available arabic english dictionary to date. I highly recommend it to both new learners of Arabic and to scholars too. Aboo Imraan's review of the Hans Wehr Dictionary, March 27, 2003 Reviewer: Aboo Imraan from Arligton, TX United States This English-Arabic dictionary is second best to E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon. For those Muslims who have been studying Arabic for several years then you will benefit from this book only in regards to the Arabic Verb Forms. Hans Wehr did an excellent job of arranging the verb forms but the only offset is that he did so using the Roman letters and not the standard Wazan that the old Arabic Scholars have observed in explaining the different verb forms. I do not recommend the Hans Wehr for study of the classical Arabic or Islamic Studies as it contains modern meanings of words as Arabs use today and not as it was understood in the time of our beloved Prophet(may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). However if you do buy this dictionary buy both the small hardback and the large hardback as they will last longer. The small hardcopy is very hard on the eyes though for you students of knowledge who spend long hours studying. I have found this dictionary helpful when I could not walk around with the Arabic-English Lexicon but it also came in handy when I completed my studies of the 3 Madinah Books commonly used in the Islamic University of Madinah, K.S.A. May Allah make us all to know and understand His Book and the authentic narrations of His Prophet (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)in the Arabic Language. THE Essential Arabic Dictionary, November 19, 2002 Reviewer: Kevin Ready from Oxnard, CA United States The is the definitive Arabic-English dictionary. It is essential for any serious study or translation of Arabic into English. Well printed and constructed. It contains both standard and vernacular words. Organized by root-words, it provides an easy method of finding closely similar concepts and words sharing common roots, an essential thing in a language such as arabic that is so heavily root dependent. If you are a serious student or user of Arabic, you must have this book. The only Arabic-English Dictionary You'll Ever Need, October 18, 2002 Reviewer: Robin Ferris from McKinney, TX United States Anyone half-way serious about the Arabic language is already familiar with the Hans Wehr. For anyone just beginning their study of Arabic, this review is for you. Before being able to use this dictionary you have to know a few rudiments of the Arabic language: the alphabet, obviously, but more importantly the verb structure. There are 10-12 measures (awzan in Arabic) of most Arabic verbs, from which nearly all nouns are derived. Once you've learned this, you'll never need to look anywhere but the Hans Wehr for any word ever again. The book is arranged by two or three-letter verb root. Under each verb you'll find the applicable measures and all common noun derivations of each. As a professional translator, the Hans Wehr is always at my side. It's good to see the 4th edition is finally available in paperback. It's an improvement over the 3rd edition, and the old hardback 4th edition weighs about 15 pounds! Buy this book! Know some Arabic verb grammar, October 15, 2002 Reviewer: Jorge Gruner from El Tuito, Jalisco Mexico While the dictionary is the best one there is for not only standard written Arabic, it also covers a wealth of colloquial words of various dialects of the spoken. You should know how certain vowels in certain verb radicals can become assimilated and yield surprising spellings.Otherwise you could end up against a brick wall looking for something apparently obvious. I recommend "Contemporary Arabic Readers: Newpaper Arabic" by Ernest McCarus for a good coverage of assimilated radical vowels in regular and irregular verbs, which covers all the rules, but be prepared to spend some time learning them. What I have never understood is how the authors compiled all this information. This is simply a collosal, everlasting intellectual achievement. Jorge Gruner Hands down best arabic to english dictionary, October 2, 2002 Reviewer: A reader from MA United States This is, by far, the best arabic to english dictionary. Rather than just giving 1 word "translations," the book will give you a real definition in terms of all the possibilities of the meaning of the word. It also gives definitions for words that apply in certain contexts, phrases, or with certain prepositions. The canonical Arabic-English dictionary, August 20, 2002 Reviewer: Chris Schroen from Washington, DC United States For all English-speaking students of Modern Standard Arabic, this is the one essential book to own. Every other Arabic-English dictionary I've ever seen is like a toy compared to this one. Its breadth is nothing short of staggering; I honestly don't remember ever consulting this dictionary and not finding what I was looking for. Caveat: to use this dictionary effectively, you must know how to figure out a word's three-letter root, because this dictionary is arranged by root, not strictly alphabetically. So make sure you have your Table of the Ten Measures handy, and rock the house. If only there were an English-Arabic dictionary of comparable quality... A Must Have!, August 6, 2002 Reviewer: kabuka1 from Pearl City, HI United States This dictionary is well worth the money and I believe it is an essential book for any serious student of Arabic. It is well done and easy to use, but you must have a good foundation in the language to be able to use it effectively. A friend in need is a friend indeed, October 29, 2001 Reviewer: jasa ajab from Kuwait I've been working as an English-Arabic translator for three years.Therefore it is very important for me to find the best dictionaries and Hans wehrs is one of the best.It shows you words which even a mother tongue Arabs would not know.It is truly a friend in need. Note:Once I found a very small size of this dictionary in a puplic library so I wonder if I can find a similar pocket size at ... ? HANS WEHR IS A PROPHET AND MILTON COWAN HIS MESSAGER, August 16, 2001 Reviewer: jacobson salomon from CARMIEL, ISRAEL UP TO NOW I HAVE USED THE 3RD EDITION AND I FOUND IT GENIOUS. THE ONLY INCONVENIENCE (AND NOT A SMALL ONE) IS THE MINUSCULE SIZE OF THE FONTS-ABOUT 1 mm in height (about 1/25 inch, I believe). I HOPE THIS POINT WAS IMPROVED IN THE 4TH EDITION, THOUGH THE AMAZON SITE GIVES NO INFO ON THIS. IF ANYONE CAN TELL ME SOMETHING ABOUT IT- WELLCOME. |
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