Oxford Essential Arabic Dictionary (Multilingual Edition)

I teach Arabic and bring this dictionary in class for my students to use. It is a pocket dictionary, so do not expect hundreds of thousands of words. It has quite a lot of words, though. Enough for the most part. I think the font size is fine. Maybe not for first-semester students, but for second-year students, it's absolutely fine. The paper is high quality (not thin at all). Great small dictionary in my opinion.

It’s great amazing book I really love it

Pros: - comes from a venerable publisher - no small matter in everything related to the Arabic language as this guarantees its correctness and modernity. - Arabic words fully pronounced, using Arabic diacritics - High quality paper and printing, which makes the text very legible - Small size and light weight, easy to carry around if needed - Contains 16000 words - not bad for such a small dictionary Cons: - 'Essential' - the name says it all. This makes it a great first dictionary but once you move on you see its deficiency - many words of general usage in printed Arabic media are missing, for many words only few out of many meanings are listed. - Price - not a big deal but still - if I can buy from Oxford huge dictionaries for 30$ this one for 15$ is a bit disproportional. Regarding small print issue - I attach to the review the picture I took of 2 dictionaries side by side - this dictionary and Wehr's Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic which is the standard to compare with (Wehr is on the left, this dictionary is on the right) . As you can see Wehr's font is even a bit smaller, moreover the paper in Wehr is really thin and transparent making it harder to read than this dictionary. In general most of the Arabic dictionaries have smaller font than we are used to in Latin-based languages.

The Oxford Essential - Arabic is practical and easy to handle, while the inside information is nicely spaced and easy to follow!

For someone just learning, this book has both Arabic to English and English to Arabic which is great. Not to bulky so easy to carry with you. I recommend!

My eyesight isn't that great, but the size of the script was a challange. Lets just say TOO SMALL!!!!!! Forget the vowels. Book size also needs to be 8" tall. This is the only Oxford language book i have that was a disappointment. For difficult languages, i think Oxford is the best. Can't learn if you can't see. Kindle is the answer to this problem because you can expand the size. A beautiful written language, easy to learn.

Very useful and easy to read

I understand a lot of the words.

Compact and clear dictionary. It's good quality and nice to have on hand for when you need it.

日本の他の辞書と比べて言えば、これは辞書とは言わない。 日本語で言うところの単語帳である。 単語にたいしての文法上の注意などは書かれていない。 しかし、当然だが、単数形と複数形は載ってある。 非常によく使われる単語の欄には例文が少しあったりする。 Comparing with japanese dictionaries, this can't be called a dictionary. It's just a so-called wordbook. It doesn't give any grammatical advise on the words. You can find singular and plural forms of the words. And a few usage examples are shown under the words which may be frequently used.

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No tiene la pronunciación para las palabras en arabe para los no hablantes, pero si las inglesas para los árabes. Mala referencia si buscas aprender arabe, buena si hablas arabe y quieres hablar inglés.