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Arabic Language Learning: Dictionaries and Dialects

A research guide for finding Arabic language learning resources in the library.

Online Dictionaries

Easy Dictionaries

School Dictionary (Qāmūsī al-Madrasī)
Call Number: PJ6640S57 2010
ISBN: 9948155432
Arabic English Visual Bilingual Dictionary by Dorling Kindersley
Call Number: PJ6640 .A68 2009
ISBN: 9780756649838
Frequency Dictionary of Arabic by Tim Buckwalter
Call Number: PJ6635.B83 2011
ISBN: 0415595436
Oxford Picture Dictionary
Call Number: PJ6640 .S485 2009
ISBN: 0194740102

Advanced Dictionaries

Arabic-English Lexicon by E. W. Lane
Call Number: PJ6640 .L3 1984
ISBN: 0946621039
Arabic-English Thematic Lexicon by Daniel Newman
Call Number: PJ6640 .N46 2007
ISBN: 0415420938
Lisān al-'Arab by Ibn Manẓūr
Call Number: PJ6620 .I15 2011
ISBN: 9789953131955
Tāj al-'Arūs min Jawāhir al-Qāmūs by Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī, Muhammad
Call Number: PJ6620 .M86 2012
ISBN: 2745174088

Reference Dictionaries

Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic by Hans Wehr
Call Number: Reference (PJ6640 .W43 1979)
ISBN: 3447020024
Al-Mawrid Dictionary by Baʻlabakkī, Munīr
Call Number: Reference (PJ6640 .B35 2008)
ISBN: 9953631093
Oxford Essential Arabic Dictionary
Call Number: PJ6640 .O94 2010
ISBN: 019956115X
Merriam-Webster's Arabic-English Dictionary
Call Number: PJ6640 .M264 2010
ISBN: 0877798605
Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic by Arne Amadeus Ambros
Call Number: BP133 .A58 2004
ISBN: 3895004006
Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran by John Penrice
Call Number: PJ6696.Z8 P4 2004
ISBN: 0486434397

Colloquial Arabic

Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic by Hinds, Martin
Call Number: PJ6795 .H56 2009
ISBN: 9953865221
Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf by Clive Holes
Call Number: PJ6853 .H64 2010
ISBN: 0415430399
Spoken Arabic of the Arabian Gulf by Jack Smart
ISBN: 0071748075
Colloquial Palestinian Arabic by Nasser M. Isleem
ISBN: 0982159536
Publication Date: PJ6808.Z9 I85 2010
Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in Standard and Palestinian Arabic by Mohammad A. Mohammad
Call Number: PJ6381 .M64 2000
ISBN: 1556199589
The Verb in Literary and Colloquial Arabic
ISBN: 3110154013
Publication Date: PJ6145 .C88 1997
Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) by Leslie McLoughlin
Call Number: PJ6813 .M34 1982
ISBN: 0415448573

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Phrase Books

Arabic Phrase Book by Berlitz
Call Number: PJ6309 .A73 2007
ISBN: 9812680349
Arabic Phrases for Dummies by Amine Bouchentouf
Call Number: PJ6309 .B68 2009
ISBN: 0470225238
Instant Arabic by Fethi Mansouri
Call Number: PJ6309 .M364 2007
ISBN: 0804838607
Survival Arabic by Fethi Mansouri
Call Number: PJ6309 .M366 2008
ISBN: 0804838615
Essential Arabic by Fethi Mansouri
Call Number: PJ6309 .E87 2012
ISBN: 0804842396