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Arabic Practical Dictionary: Arabic-English English-Arabic (Hippocrene Practical Dictionaries) | 
| Authors: Nicholas Awde, K. Smith
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Category: Book
List Price: $22.50
Buy New: $15.30
You Save: $7.20 (32%)
Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 66490
Media: Paperback
Edition: Bilingual
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0781810450
Dewey Decimal Number: 492.7321
EAN: 9780781810456
Publication Date: January 2004
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Product Description
An essential resource for students of Arabic and English alike, this dictionary contains the most up-to- date vocabulary in handy reference form. With more than 18,000 entries, it is especially useful in navigating the growing terminology of politics, telecommunications, technology, the internet, tourism, business and travel. *Compact and Concise
*Clear language, pronounciation, and grammar for both sides
*Easy-to-read format and practical arrangement of Arabic and English entries
*More than 18,000 total entries
*Arabic provided with romanized transliterations
*English provided with phonetic transliterations
*Ideal for students, scholars, businesspeople, journalists, aid workers, and the military in both English-speaking and Arabic-speaking countries.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 Nicholas Awde means "quality product" August 14, 2004
51 out of 59 found this review helpful
A handy but not quite pocket-sized dictionary of 18,000 entries that must have been compiled using up-to-date source material. Look up coalition, extremist, bomber, martyr, military occupation, resistance, torture, prison, fanatic, graveyard, reconstruction, genocide, or refugee, and you'll find what you need. The Arabic script is crystal clear and of more than adequate font size. Short appendices include the days of the week, months in two forms plus the Islamic months, and country names. The phonetics for both the Arabic and English entries are easily understood, the dictionary being intended for both students of English and Arabic. This may be the only dictionary out there that you would actually ever be tempted to carry around with you. Lots of value for a very reasonable price!
Nice little dictionary - less daunting than most others October 28, 2004
31 out of 32 found this review helpful
I bought this dictionary a few months back, just before the new semester. I also bought the Hans Wehr dictionary, which of course, is Arabic-English only. I think this 'Practical Dictionary' is a useful for English-speakers, in that it works how dictionaries work in European languages: words are arranged alphabetically, not according to the root ('jadhr'). Sure, once you're used to dealing with roots, and with some practise, it'll probably become easy to look things up, but when you're just trying to get your homework done in time for class, this book works well.
It goes from each language into the other, which makes it a handy little dictionary. Not quite pocketsize, but certainly easy to carry around in your backpack/briefcase.
As for the fonts, I'd say the Arabic font is adequate. For some reason, the English font is quite a bit bigger, especially the headers in the English-Arabic section, and so when you go back to look up an Arabic word, all of a sudden, it seems unnecessarily small by contrast.
 Nisf wa nisf February 17, 2006
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
This dictionary is just ok for the Arabic language. In the E-A section the words given to you for English words are correct to use about 65-75% of the time and they don't give many secondary or tertiary options for them. The Oxford is far better as E-A as not only do they give multiple meanings but they give appropriate prepositions and articles with them. As for A-E this dictionary is listed American style, completely alphabetically. However the Arabic language uses a root system to form words making the American way of looking up words is extremely inefficient for Arabic. If you know any Arabic at all the Hans Wehr is easy to use and the best dictionary by far for A-E translating.
Great dictionary for students July 12, 2005
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
This dictionary seems good enough for advanced as well as beginner students in Arabic. My only beef with it is that it usually does not have the short vowels printed there along with the consonants which are of immense help to the beginner. But at least it does have the transliteration of the word to help make up for that fact. It's also not too cumbersome to carry around with you.
Great dictionary for students of Arabic August 24, 2005
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Great basic dictionary of Arabic. It is always very important to me when selecting a foreign language dictionary that it is Language A-Language B and also Language B-Language A. This is the case with this book. It is very easy to use. This is the best Arabic/English English/Arabic dictonary I've come across so far.
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