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A DICTIONARY OF MODERN WRITTEN ARABIC

HANS WEHR

A DICTIONARY OF MODERN WRITTEN ARABIC

EDITED BY J MILTON COWAN

THIRD EDITION

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Table of Contents

Preface 6

Preface to The Pocket-Book Edition 6

Introduction 7

ا 18

ب 80

ت 164

ث 185

ج 200

ح 269

خ 386

د 459

ذ 520

ر 537

ز 625

س 656

ش 752

ص 829

ض 884

ط 910

ظ 959

ع 968

غ 1081

ف 1126

ق 1197

ك 1310

ل 1382

م 1442

ن 1520

هـ 1646

و 1693

ي 1790

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Wehr, Hans (Date)

A dictionary of modern written Arabic.

"An enlarged and improved version of 'Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart' and includes the Contents of the 'Supplement zum Arabischen Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart.' "

1. Arabic language-Dictionaries-English. I. Cowan, J Milton. II. Title. [PJ6640.W43 1976] 492'.7'321 75-24236 ISBN 0-87950-001-8

© Otto Harrauowltz, Wiesbaden 1961, 1066, 1971

© Spoken Language Services, Inc. 1976

Preface

Shortly after the publication of Professor Hans Wehr's Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart in 1952, the Committee on Language Programs of the American Council of Learned Societies recognized its excellence and began to explore means of providing an up-to-date Eng-lish edition. Professor Wehr and I readily reached agreement on a plan to translate, edit, and enlarge the dictionary. This task was considerably lightened and hastened by generous financial support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Arabian American Oil Company, and Cornell University.

This dictionary will be welcome not only to English and American users, but to orientalists throughout the world who are more at home with English than with German. It is more accurate and much more comprehensive than the original version, which was produced under extremely unfavorable conditions in Germany during the late war years and the early postwar period.

lthaca, New York J Milton Cowan

November 1960

Preface to The Pocket-Book Edition

In Order to meet the enormous increase of interest in Arabic brought about by political, economic and social develop-ments of the past decade, we have now published our 3rd Revised Edition of A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic in this handy, comprehensive and unabridged version.

Münster Hans Wehr

lthaca, New York J Milton Cowan

February 1976

Introduction