Arabic Concise Dictionary : English-Arabic

Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung A shortened and updated version of the "Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary", designed to meet the needs of the Arabic speaker learning English. It records the different levels of usage met with in newspapers, radio and TV as well as films.

Product details

• Authors: N.S. Doniach
• Assisted by: N. S. Doniach (Editor), N.S. Doniach (Editor), Doniach N. S. (Editor), S Doniach (Editor), N S Doniach (Editor), W. K. Davin (Co-editor), S. Khulusi (Co-editor), N. Shamaa (Co-editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1991
• EAN: 9780198643210
• ISBN: 978-0-19-864321-0
• No. of pages: 461
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 210 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Dictionnaires; Dictionnaires
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Englisch : Wörterbücher: zwei- und mehrsprachig, Arabisch : Wörterbücher, REFERENCE / Dictionaries, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, Usage and grammar guides, Dictionaries, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary