5 comments about 501 Arabic Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All Forms.

1. If you are looking for a book that is past beginners level this is the one to get. This may be the only book you will ever need in order to learn Arabic. I studied Arabic in school and could read and write and new the basic words but was always a little behind with my structure of verbs and this book i take everywhere now and it really has helped me in developing the language. Dont spend your money those silly learning Arabic where its majority words you already know, if you know how to read and write in Arabic get this book!



2. This is by far the most exhaustive compilation of the conjugation of the Arabic verb that I know. There are two indices for each word; one by the root order the other by the whole word order; both given in alphabetical order with page number.
   
   The usual information is given for each. The verb is written in Arabic with the English translation. The root and its Form are given. Under this heading, for each verb, is the Active and Passive voice in Past and Present Tense conjugated in Subjunctive, Jussive and Imperative. The Active and Passive Participles are given along with the Verbal Noun.
   
   The author gives an explanation of each of the ten forms in the introduction section at the beginning of the book. This too is extremely helpful. Check out this Introduction. Its full of useful information.
   
   But what makes this compilation invaluable as a learning aid is the examples of the meaning of each word in at least two English sentences. Usually three or four examples are given.
   
   I do agree with some of the other reviewers that an English word index would be helpful to facilitate the learning process. Some years ago I made my own English Index for '201 Arabic Verbs'. It took a couple of days and then it was done. I guess I'll do the same with '501'.
   
   I highly recommend this book for anyone studying the language. It's an invaluable learning tool and a very handy reference.



3. I have numerous language books: verbs, vocab, phrasebooks, dictionaries... you name it. This is by far the worst example of a verb study for three reasons.
   
   1.) In my opinion, and although some would argue it's not that important, I believe any great language book on a language with a foreign text from it's translated text needs an alphabet page. It's simple, it's easy to use, and doesn't take up more a page or two.
   
   2.) Secondly, the indexing is horrible. This book was intended for the non-native Arabic speaker to be able to access the diversity and complexity of the Arabic verb. That's near impossible, if not just annoying by page-searching, to find the English verb you wish to conjugate in Arabic. This defeats the purpose of the book... I would sooner use my standard dictionary and my Teach Yourself Arabic Verbs to figure out what category of verb it is (I-X) to conjugate it than to waste my time flipping through 501 verbs.
   
   3.) Lastly, most of the verbs used in this book are rather useless verbs for a beginner or even an intermediate Arabic student. It's one thing to offer up religious and war-related verbs as extensions to a verb study but to make them the central focus and leave out important verbs like swim, run, and laugh is an entirely different level of poor publishing.
   
   For the sake of Barron's name, this book should be removed from shelves and replaced immediately. I never use mine and only keep it because it's part of my collection. Save yourself the money, time and stress.



4. I am afraid I have to agree with other reviewers that this book is both an improvement over the earlier 201 Verbs volume but at the same time also falls short of that work in a few respects.
   
   It goes without saying that the inclusion of 300 more items is a plus. The introduction is also longer and provides information on the various forms of the Arabic verb, their meanings and usage. The Arabic font is a tad larger but far more legible, and the new layout of forms on the page is also a big improvement. The inclusion of example sentences for each verb is also a welcome addition.
   
   Unfortunately, the larger font/new layout and new examples result in the content for each verb no longer fitting on a single page. This means that it is more difficult than with the earlier volume to search for a given verb by riffling through the pages. I suppose the Index of Verbs in Root Order and Index of Verbs in Whole Word Order were included to make up for this.
   
   Finally, the Index of Verb Patterns included in the 201 book, which I found extremely helpful, is strangely missing from this one. The pattern information is included in the heading of each entry, of course, but having an index of them was convenient.
   
   I would like to give this book 3.5 stars, but I'm going to round down. It falls short of the much better reference it could have been.



5. For many years Arabic learners had to make do with '201 Arabic Verbs', which was this book's predecessor in the widely used Barron's series of books on verbal conjugations in different languages. Now Arabic has (belatedly) made it to the big time in the arena of foreigh language education in English, and this work will make itself very useful to its students- and not just to those in the beginning stages of Arabic study.
   
   The Arabic verb mirrors the character of the language itself- based on very simple and logical principles which turn out to be complex and daunting in practice. There are basically two tenses and an imperative (the future, subjunctive and jussive are basically just small and entirely predictable variations of the imperfect), practically no irregular verbs to speak of, and verbs with more complicated and abstract meanings are derived from the basic forms by means of a small number of again quite predictable formulas.
   
   So how does it get hard? The answer basically lies in the forms of some of the three-consonant roots that Arabic uses not only to build up almost all of its verbs but its entire lexicon as well. Roots which include hamza (the glottal stop), waw and ya, or which include a double root (second and third consonants are the same) follow much more complicated rules and it is easy to forget the details of them if you don't see a particular form for a while. So that's the real reason why a reference work like this is so important to have. The verbs themselves have been well-chosen, there is a preliminary section that, although brief, explains all of the essentials of how Arabic verbs work, and along with the tables of conjugations illustrative sentences for each verb are given. The verbs are indexed both by alphabetical order and by root (a system that learners should master as soon as possible because it is the system used by the best Arabic dictionaries). It would have been nice to include an English index as well, and it wouldn't have added a lot of extra space. Hopefully a future edition will correct this omission. But in the meantime this is still a very helpful reference to have handy- learners will continue to turn to it long after they have passed their beginning stages.

5 comments about Alif Baa With Multimedia: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds (Arabic Edition).

1. I'm taking an Arabic class for which we use this book. I really like it, except for the fact that they don't always tell you what word it is (in English) that you are writing. Otherwise, it's great.



2. For a language that seems to have such an emphasis on beauty, precision and grace, this book is embarrassing. It is poorly laid out, with no chapter or section indication on each page, which makes the task of cross-referencing a big waste of time. (The Table of Contents is just not enough.) Plus the Arabic typography is so small as to require a magnifying glass for a reader with 20/20 vision.
   
   I understand the point of view not to include much transliteration. But why is there no unified table of all the Arabic alphabet, the multiple ways characters are written, and diacritical marks? The DVD has a table with just the basic alphabet, but nothing to show the nuance to writing the language. A chart like the Periodic Table of Elements could be beautiful and very helpful in learning the ways letters morph when they bond to form words and the subtleties of pronunciation of the vowels, etc.
   
   One strength of the book and DVD is the many different types of exercises it includes. In that regard it is stronger than other introductory language learning tools I have used.
   
   It would be simple to solve many of the navigation problems with this book and DVD. This would making working with the book and more importantly, that initial immersion in Arabic, much more enjoyable. On the other hand, if the goal of this text is to discourage all but the most zealous students, then it is perfect just the way it is.



3. The Alif Baa textbook is the first in a series of Arabic textbooks that have become the university standard for Modern Standard Arabic teaching. I've used this same series of books at Columbia University, Harvard University, Middlebury Language Schools, and the American Language Institute of Fez.
   
   Alif Baa is the beginner's beginner manual - it teaches the alphabet, and some very basic vocabulary. When I used this textbook, we covered all the material in about a month.
   
   I don't know how well this book would work for auto-didacts trying to learn the language without a classroom or instructor. I don't think that it was designed for that purpose. I know that Arabic teachers appreciate this manual because it walks a line between the more technical, grammar-obsessed textbooks and the more free-wheeling, conversation based textbooks. It will lay the groundwork for obscure, scholarly research or for a heated discussion about politics.



4. The Alif Baa and Al Kitaab text books are wonderful for learning Arabic. They are best in the context of a formal course, but could be used for individual study as well.



5. Good book, it was required for a class, so I didn't have much choice. My first impression was that it was very academic and difficult for the beginner (I've used other Arabic text textbooks) The DVD is very helpful. One thing that is an absolute must is buying the answer key. There are several spelling dictation drills and other drills that are simply audio on the DVD. Without the answer key or a professor you have no feedback as to whether you're getting it right or not. My confidence and learning went up significantly after I purchased the answer key. Overall a good, thorough book.

5 comments about Read and Speak Arabic for Beginners.

1. Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gafaar have done it again. They really make learning Arabic fun! This book just adds to their Michel Thomas method Arabic Foundation Course and Advanced Course as well as their Conversational Arabic CD set. These are all available on Amazon. It's great to listen to them on the CDs and practice reading with this book.



2. This is an accessible and pedagogical book which will teach the beginners the basics of Arabic.
   It introduces practical phrases which are used in dialogues such as introducing oneself, saying where one is from, asking about different things and where they are located, describing objects and people, etc. The book comes with an accompanying CD which will teach the student to pronounce and memorize the words. It is a very useful tool which will help the student master the Arabic language.
   
   Joyce Akesson, author of The Complexity of the Irregular Verbal and Nominal Forms & the Phonological Changes in Arabic



3. This is a great workbook! I love how it comes with a cd for pronunciation. There are also a lot of activities and games that help you learn words really easily!



4. I have purchased many books to learn Arabic and this one is the best. Although it is more like a high school workbook it is fun and it works! It has english, written arabic, and phonetic arabic - all three are rarely in other books. The games are fun and instill the language further. I highly recommend this book and cannot wait to purchase the next level. Also, the Arabic writing is large enough so that it can be read easily, unlike many other books.



5. This is an accessible and pedagogical book which will teach the beginners the basics of Arabic.
   It introduces practical phrases which are used in dialogues such as introducing oneself, saying where one is from, asking about different things and where they are located, describing objects and people, etc. The book comes with an accompanying CD which will teach the student to pronounce and memorize the words. It is a very useful tool which will help the student master the Arabic language.
   
   Joyce Akesson, author of Arabic Morphology and Phonology: Based on the Marah Al-Arwah by Ahmad B. Ali B. Masud (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics) and The Complexity Of The Irregular Verbal And Nominal Forms & The Phonological Changes In Arabic

5 comments about Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya with DVDs: A Textbook for Arabic, Part Two, Second Edition (Part 2).

1. One thing is for sure - this book should not be used by autodidacts! I have been using a different set of textbooks that are heavy on grammar and vocabulary acquisition and very light on oral comprehension, so I am using this book to review my vocabulary and improve my listening skills. For that purpose the book is great! The texts are mildly challenging and the DVD content is most useful. In just one month that it took me to get through part 2 I made excellent progress.
   
   Nevertheless, I have to note that
   1. Grammar presentation is bordering on pathetic, if I did not know all of that stuff already I would have never learnt it from this volume.
   
   2. Vocabulary retention exercises are few and not terribly effective (although the choice of vocabulary items it quite good, just the stuff you need to read a newspaper).
   
   3. The "colloquial Arabic" part is useless at best. I ended up skipping it altogether, if I ever need to learn a particular dialect I will make it a separate project and will find an appropriate source.
   
   4. Was there any meaningful reason to put the answers in a separate book? Did it have to be that bulky?
   
   Unfortunately, I have never found an all-around good textbook of Arabic in any language, although the French and the Russian ones that I initially used were almost decent, they just do not take you very far.
   Considering that language instruction is such a huge industry I am constantly amazed by how many products of inferior quality are on the market.



2. This book was developed by several expert arabists with the patronage of the federally funded NMELRC at Brigham Young University. It is well structured for the traditional arabic course in US universities and is rapidly gaining acceptance as the primary instructional text for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The advantages of the text include the accompanying audio visual material which provides some immersion into MSA as well as the egyptian dialect of Arabic. One notable disadvantage would be the difficulty for use in self study without the assistance of an instructor. This text is therefore best used with the aid of an instructor. Other than that, the contemporary treatment of MSA as a living language is notable strength of this text. The three levels of this entire course as well as the Alif baa introductory course would be well suited for adoption by instructors or students serious about mastering MSA.



3. I bought this book for an Arabic course at NYU where it was a required text. [...]. This book is part of a comprehensive series. As it comes with DVDs it could be used at home, but is more conducive for classroom instruction. The DVDs include a'amiya (colloquial) arabic as well as fusha (MSA) which is a plus. Part 2 does not include a dictionary unlike Part 1 which is a pain.



4. With the assistance of an Arabic teacher, this is definitely the best book around. It's very helpful; the pace of learning increases gradually so it remains easy to keep up throughout the series. It's never overloaded with information and grammatically it's spot on. Recognized as one of the top (usually THE top) Arabic language series.



5. The Alif Baa and Al Kitaab text books are wonderful for learning Arabic. They are best in the context of a formal course, but could be used for individual study as well.

5 comments about Arabic Practical Dictionary: Arabic-English English-Arabic (Hippocrene Practical Dictionaries).

1. Item is exactly as described and correspond to what I was looking for. A little note about the arabic words for a future edition, it would be better if printed a bit bigger. As some times difficult to read.



2. This dictionary has some things going for it that make it worth having. The vocabulary it offers is very contemporary, the Arabic is printed in a nice-looking font, and quality English-Arabic dictionaries of any size are hard to find. So I made a lot of use it for classes where written compositions were assigned. And it isn't too heavy to carry around and won't take up a lot of room in a briefcase or book bag. My one criticism would be that the Arabic-English half is organized by alphabetical order, not by roots as most Arabic dictionaries are. Best suggestion: get this along with Hans Wehr (Arabic-English only) and get going right away learning to look up words by roots. It's a slow and painstaking learning process, but it's a very necessary skill in learning Arabic, so it's really better not to put it off. Use the Arabic-English half of Awde only if you're in a hurry to finish an assignment.



3. I find this dictionary very practical. The pronunciation is helpful (ie: romanized for Arabic). I teach English to Arabic speakers and they enjoy using the dictionary also as it gives the words which are common in speaking several dialects. It is small enough to carry in a purse or book bag. Any English speaker with a basic understanding of the Arabic alphabet and sounds, can use it to interpret either the spoken or the written Arabic.



4. i tossed this thing after a year. might be good for people studying arabic just for university. a tiny little dictionary like this could never cover E-A and A-E both very well, so whats the use? a bigger dictionary, like the mawrid, is necessary to make real progress.



5. I selected this Arabic dictionary because it surpass the others with the number of word and cheap price . Also, it is two-way dictionary.

5 comments about Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Arabic.

1. It is a very useful dic for Arabic student who want to find picture meaning for objects and materials used in the daily life. It is one of the best way of enhancing Arabic and English Vocabulary.
   I suggest that they add some common conversations regarding the subjects on each chapter with some fill in the blank.
   Thank you.



2. This book is organized by subject ("the home", "shopping") with labeled and coloured pictures. It is part of a series for different language speakers and is best used in schools for beginning English speakers. We were using it for a newly arrived arabic-speaking family. It helped to provide some basic vocabulary, but if you are translating a particular word you have to know in what vocabulary grouping the word has been placed. It will give the family a way of practising, though, by using the things around them and making sentences. This is a pleasant, bright, and comfortable learning resource and reasonably priced.



3. I recomend this book for begining or intermediat level russian speakers. Very easy book. Pictures help to learn new words a lot! I just feel sorry I didn't buy this book earlier at my begining level. I learned many words i need living in US.



4. I am a volunteer ESL/ABE tutor at a local library and this book is great for explaining words that would be hard to translate without a picture. For example, my student, a native Arabic speaker, was reading a passage on the first Thanksgiving and they didn't know what green beans were. All I had to do was open this book to the appropriate page and there was a picture with green beans and the words in both English and Arabic. It covers everything from family to food to places around town and more. They also sell workbooks to go with the Oxford Picture Dictionaries that are great, too. One downfall is that there are no Arabic pronounciations so it's not good if you're trying to learn Arabic. Overall though, a great book for the price and purpose.



5. i like it, good book for English lang education. the shipped book was new.fast and clean shipping also
   thank you

5 comments about Answer Key To Al-Kitaab Fii Ta'allum Al-'Arabiyya 2nd Edition.

1. Clear and well formatted answer key, makes the use of the Original work text easy to use.



2. It doesn't include all of the homeworks. and only has some of them. It's some what helpful but it's not complete. but for only $4, it is not bad.



3. As the colloquial Egyptian Arabic is the most widely used variety of spoken Arabic, it is a pity that no scripts of the colloquial Egyptian version of the DVD in each chapter are given.



4. Wish I had known this was around before I was over half done with the actual book. Has selected answers. I could have used a little more explanation, but it was nice to be able to double check the answers.



5. The answer key is all in Arabic...I was hoping, because the text book for "beginning" Arabic is very confusing and is not very clear, that at least this Answer Key would translate everything into English. But it doesn't. The text book does give a vocabulary in each chapter but all Arabic words used in the chapter are not all in the vocabulary and are also not always in the Arabic-English glossary in the back of the book..so one has to look them up in an Arabic-English dictionary, of which I have several. Looking words up in Arabic dictionaries are not as straightforward as in an English dictionary unless you know the Arabic roots. In order to know the roots, it helps to know the structure of the words which you don't get in this book. Beginners should not have to be put through this or they will be frustrated. Not only that but the text book and this answer key to the text book assumes you know how to read Arabic. It does not teach you this. I know how to read Arabic and I have also gotten more than half way through Rosetta Stone Level 2 Arabic but I find this Al-Kitab text and answer key hard to follow or figure out. I also very much dislike the DVDs. Maha is cute but the program could have been put together a lot better (the GUI was difficult to work with). A lot of these Arabic to English language courses seem to forget that the people they are teaching don't know Arabic or can't read Arabic and it sure doesn't help when they don't constantly give specific instructions and course the path with English. I found a pretty good Arabic-English language course that can be downloaded for free...public domain...there is a 3 volume course in both Arabic and English and audio Arabic and English translations that follow the printed course material. You only have to endure, if that is a problem, a little bit (ok, more than a little bit) of proselytizing into Islam. But the guy who reads the Arabic and English translations is very clear and easy to understand. Do a search on the Arabic Medina Books at the archive.org website and be prepared for huge downloads. You can also go to the [...] site to download yet another guy on the Medina Books audio but I found him a little harder to understand. There is also a huge library of videos on the Medina Books course but those are more advanced and expect you to have gone through the 3 volume course as a prerequisite.

5 comments about Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya with DVDs: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part One Second Edition.

1. This book is very rudimentary, but a good starter for learning the Arabic alphabet and some very basic vocabulary. I wish it was extended instead of making the student buy a second textbook to get more in depth.



2. I'm about to graduate college and have studied arabic for 3 years (after this semester). 2 of those years I have used Al-Kitab. All in all, its not the greatest book. The vocabulary is rather obsolete; in the first chapter you learn how to say United Nations (because that comes up in conversation regularly in the Arab world RIIIGHHHHTT???). The way the book explains grammar is confusing to native english speakers and the DVD will break on you...so plan on getting a back up. If you plan on getting al-kitab for independent study...GOOD LUCK!!! I only succeeded because I was under the care of a professor, al-kitab had little to do with my success. For independent study, i'd try rosetta stone, its a bit more expensive, but its easier to grasp than the lessons in Al-kitab. Good luck, arabic is a very difficult language to learn.



3. Even the answer key, separately purchased, is all in Arabic...I was hoping, because the text book for "beginning" Arabic is very confusing and is not very clear, that at least this Answer Key would translate everything into English. But it doesn't. This is not a text book for beginners without an Arabic Instructor. The text book does give a vocabulary in each chapter but all Arabic words used in the chapter are not all in the vocabulary and are also not always in the Arabic-English glossary in the back of the book..so one has to look them up in an Arabic-English dictionary, of which I have several, and have used many times. Looking words up in Arabic dictionaries are not as straightforward as in an English dictionary unless you know the Arabic roots..know how to omit the prefixes and suffixes to get the root. In order to know the roots, it helps to know the structure of the words which you don't get in this book. Beginners should not have to be put through this or they will be frustrated. I'm frustrated and I'm not exactly a "beginner". Not only that but the text book and this answer key to the text book assumes you know how to read Arabic. It does not teach you this. I know how to read Arabic and I have also gotten more than half way through Rosetta Stone Level 2 Arabic but I find this Al-Kitab text and answer key hard to follow or figure out. I also very much dislike the DVDs. Maha is cute but the program could have been put together a lot better (the GUI was difficult to work with). A lot of these Arabic to English language courses seem to forget that the people they are teaching don't know Arabic or can't read Arabic and it sure doesn't help when they don't constantly give specific instructions and course the path with English. I found a pretty good Arabic-English language course that can be downloaded for free...public domain...there is a 3 volume course in both Arabic and English and audio Arabic and audio English translations that follow the printed course material. You only have to endure, if that is a problem, a little bit (ok, more than a little bit) of proselytizing into Islam. But the guy who reads the Arabic and English translations is very clear and easy to understand. Do a search on the Arabic Medina Books at the [...] website and be prepared for huge downloads. You can also go to the [...] site to download yet another guy on the Medina Books audio but I found him a little harder to understand. There is also a huge library of videos on the Medina Books course but those are more advanced and expect you to have gone through the 3 volume course as a prerequisite.



4. Kristen and friends- I think you guys are idiots. Please find someone to write a better book. This is the worst language book I have ever used. Alif Baa starts out not bad, gives you a very small base of understanding, then you move on to Al Kitaab level 1 and the first word you learn is 'the United Nations'. So students of Arabic I warn you- if you use any of the words you learn in this book in any Arab speaking country, you will look like an idiot. Even after completing all three books, your vocabulary and speaking range will be so limited you won't have much use for it. There needs to be a second Alif Baa basic book that has more basic information. Yes, Arabic is a hard language, but it is not impossible. This book makes it impossible to learn Arabic. I still can barely put a sentence together and can't hold a conversation with a native speaker. (I want to include that I speak 4 foreign languages fluently, much of that I learned on my own). I have no idea what these three were thinking when they wrote this book. I hope by now someone has told them what an awful job they did and they should be ashamed of themselves. What a bunch of idiots. I wish I could give this book a zero instead of one star.



5. The book arrived very quick! The company is very responsible. The website said "like new" but the first chapter has many written in it. I expected no writing in the book. The book condition is very good beside the writing.

5 comments about The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read & Write It.

1. I bought this book and Easy Arabic Grammer together. After an hour of studying this book I could actually read some of that hen-scratching! I will consider myself an advanced beginner when I can de-cipher Al Jazeera's logo. Then on to the grammer. But this is definitely the book with which to begin.



2. It was unexpectedly great book, easy to understand and follow the directions. I certainly would recommend it to anyone wants to learn the basics of the Arabic language.



3. If you plan to learn arabic, be sure not to miss this book. If you take a book like "read and speak arabic for beginners" it will throw you right into the written words without any explanation about how they relate to alphabet and thus you can take the whole words as strange sort of hieroglyphics and of course it is a mess. But here is why this book is a treasure, it will give you an undertanding of how actually read and write.



4. I have this and Rosetta Stone. I honestly think I like this book more then Rosetta Stone, not for it's depth, but for it's introduction to Arabic and getting your feet wet. I would recommend for ANYONE starting off.



5. This book provides a good introduction to reading and writing the Arabic alphabet. Given the cursive nature of Arabic text, it is much easier to read once you have a little practice writing in Arabic script. This book makes Arabic writing easy and fun.

5 comments about Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.

1. This dictionary is like a collection of unfinished notes. There is no description of how and why the data is organised. There is no vowel marking whatsoever, no initial hamza, and no dots under final ya. Not once. Some undocumented transcription system is supposed to compensate for all of the previously mentioned drawbacks, but every now and then the transliteration is completely lacking. Did I mention that alif roots are listed at the end of the alphabet under wa or ya for no apparent reason? At least most words are in the dictionary, if you take your time to search carefully. This does not prevent the authors to be in awe with their own work as they go on about how great it is in the preface. Also, expect definitions to be all bundled in disarray as there is no easy way to tell what the main meaning is. And despite all this, this is the best root based Arabic English dictionary ever published. I hope someday we will be able to buy a high quality dictionary instead.



2. This was the first, and best, Arabic dictionary I was issued as a military linguist. I've gone on to purchase dozens of Arabic dictionaries, some quite specialized and some broad ones like Al Mawrid (both versions). Some people have gone into great detail on why this is a great dictionary, so I won't repeat what they said except perhaps this: The best part about this dictionary is that the process of looking up every word requires that you identify the root of the word and how it's been conjugated... that constant process becomes intuitive and after a while you're thinking about the language in those terms. I've been working with the language since 2001 and this is still my go to book when I need to find something.



3. I've only been studying Arabic for two semesters now but this dictionary in my opinion is very easy to use if you know how to navigate the root system.



4. Even the best Arabic language course benefits from being supplemented by a proper Arabic-English dictionary like this one. It is useful as well as interesting to see how each Arabic word is related to other words derived from a common three consonant Semitic stem. For such a purpose I find Han Wehr's dictionary to work quite well.



5. A wonderful resource. No personal library or Islamic language study center should be without a copy. You won't be disappointed in your research for root meaning of words.