The Concise Oxford English-Arabic dictionary of current usage
1982
Book
This dictionary 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. The dictionary includes: nearly 40,000 entries providing English headwords with multiple meanings and their nearest Arabic equivalent, phonetic equivalents for headwords, phrases illustrating unexpected and alien idioms, and explanations of headwords denoting concepts new to the Arab world, and vowels and diacritics included in the Arabic text, irregular plurals of nouns, and simple verb conjugations in the imperfect tense.
Main title:
The Concise Oxford English-Arabic dictionary of current usage / edited by N.S. Doniach ; with the assistance of Safa Khulusi, N. Shamaa, W.K. Davin.
Author:
Edition:
Repr. with corrs.
Imprint:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
Collation:
x, 461 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Abridged ed. of: The Oxford English-Arabic dictionary of current usage / edited by N.S. Doniach. 1972.In English and Arabic.
ISBN:
9780198643210 (hardback)0198643217
Dewey class:
492.7321
LC class:
PJ6640
Language:
EnglishArabic
Subject:
BRN:
790665
Electronic access:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | Language Learning | LEARN ARA DICT CONC | On loan - Due: 15 Jul 2026 |
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Language Learning | LEARN ARA DICT CONC | Available |