Concise Oxford English-Arabic dictionary
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780198643210
- ISBN10 0198643217
- Type Book
- Pages 461
- Published 1982
- Language Arab
- Bookbinding Cloth
Sections
ArabConcise Oxford English-Arabic dictionary
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
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.