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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Arabic Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.Description: x, 461 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198643217
  • 9780198643210
Other title: معجم اكسفورد الوجيز إنكليزي-عربي Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 492/.7321 19
LOC classification:
  • PJ6640 .O93 1982
NLM classification:
  • PJ 6640
Other classification:
  • 18.73
  • 18.04
  • KM22
  • Reference
  • AA 102(ARA)
Online resources: Summary: 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.
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Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Library STUDENTS ROOM PJ6640 .O93 1982 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) V. Copy 1 Available (Item does not circulate.) 197015179

Abridged ed. of: The Oxford English-Arabic dictionary of current usage / edited by N.S. Doniach. 1972.

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.

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