9780879500030-0879500034-Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (English and Arabic Edition)

Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (English and Arabic Edition)

ISBN-13: 9780879500030
ISBN-10: 0879500034
Edition: 4th
Author: Hans Wehr, J Milton Cowan
Publication date: 1993
Publisher: Spoken Language Services
Format: Paperback 1301 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780879500030
ISBN-10: 0879500034
Edition: 4th
Author: Hans Wehr, J Milton Cowan
Publication date: 1993
Publisher: Spoken Language Services
Format: Paperback 1301 pages

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Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (English and Arabic Edition) (ISBN-13: 9780879500030 and ISBN-10: 0879500034), written by authors Hans Wehr, J Milton Cowan, was published by Spoken Language Services in 1993. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses (Foreign Language Study & Reference) books. You can easily purchase or rent Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (English and Arabic Edition) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.87.

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"This Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (fourth edition) has been enlarged and amended with 13,000 new entries. It is the only authorized paperback edition of the famous Hans Wehr Arabic-English Dictionary, edited by J. Milton Cowan. This new edition has thousands of new entries include numerous additions and corrections to the material and presents the results in a single handsome volume.

The author provides a useful introduction in which he discusses, clearly and precisely, the present state of the Arabic language. He points out the situations in which written and spoken varieties of Arabic are used, and remarks on the forces that influenced the development of the lexicon of Modern Arabic. He discusses both the purist movement with its normative tradition, and what might be called the laissez-faire actual usage of writers and journalists under the influence of Western modes of expression, of their everyday colloquial, or both. He then moves on to the problem of local terminology, especially for public institutions, offices, administrative matters, titles, and foods. Although such terms are included for most of the Arab countries, the list is not complete, as indeed the author recognizes (viii); readers of Arabic material characterized by a distinct regional coloring are advised to refer to dialect dictionaries and glossaries."

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