"The most appropriate dictionary to recommend to English speaking students for Arabic composition--in terms
of clarity, a reasonably comprehensive word list, and in terms of value for expenditure. I recommend it highly
to my students."
--Seth Ward, Yale University
"The best reference text available for English-Arabic usage."
--Karen C. Ryding, U.S. Department of State
Oxford University Press Web Site, May, 2000
Summary
This convenient pocket dictionary--an abridged and updated edition of the acclaimed Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary
of Current Usage--is designed for both the English speaker learning Arabic and the Arabic speaker learning English.
It records the different levels of usage found in newspapers, radio, television, and films, providing major Arabic
dialectal equivalents for familiar, colloquial, and slang words. Ideal for the student or traveler, the dictionary
includes:
Nearly 40,000 entries providing English headwords with multiple meanings and their nearest Arabic equivalent
For Arabic speakers: phonetic equivalents for headwords, phrases illustrating unexpected and alien idioms,
and explanations of headwords denoting concepts new to the Arab world
For English speakers: vowels and diacritics included in the Arabic text, irregular plurals of nouns, and simple
verb conjugations in the imperfect tense
Meticulously transcribed Arabic characters for easy reading
