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Dictionaries ▼ Arabic Transliteration Tool Approximate Hijri to Gregorian Converter Urdu-Hindi-English Dictionary Use the search box below to search for the meaning of an Arabic word in over 50 dictionaries. Copyright: All of our dictionaries are sourced from the Shamela project except where noted otherwise. We assume that these dictionaries are all in the public domain since (a) the vast majority are classical works that are now in the public domain and (b) they are all available online on many established websites. If you are the copyright holder of any of the recent dictionaries used on our site and wish for them to be taken down, please contact us and we will remove them as soon as possible. الموسوعة اللّغوية مشروع لبناء أكبر معجم ومحرك بحث لغوي للّغة العربية في العالم يحتوي على 229437 موضوع أُخذ من 51 كتاب من كتب المعاجم واللغة. ArabicLexicon.Hawramani.com (formerly Lisaan.net) aims to be the world’s largest and most comprehensive Arabic dictionary. It features 229437 entries taken from 51 dictionaries and references from the earliest authorities to Orientalist and contemporary sources (scroll down for a full listing). Among the best-known works are: Kitāb al-ʿAin of al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad The Ṣiḥāḥ of al-Jawharī The Muḥkam of Ibn Sīda The Mufradāt of Al-Rāghib al-Isfahānī Asās al-Balāgha of al-Zamakhshari Lisān al-ʿArab of Ibn Manẓūr Al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ of Firuzabadi Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī’s Tāj al-ʿArūs The Arabic-English Lexicon of W. E. Lane ArabicLexicon.Hawramani.com currently holds the following dictionaries and references. When you run a search on this website, all of these references are searched: 7th Century ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbbās, Gharīb al-Qurʾān fī Shiʿr al-ʿArab, also known as Masāʾil Nāfiʿ b. al-Azraq (d. 687 CE) غريب القرآن في شعر العرب لعبد الله بن عباس Browse تصفح This book (also known as Masāʾil Nāfiʿ b. al-Azraq ) is a 250-entry dictionary of Quranic words written in a question-and-answer format. The questions are asked by Nāfiʿ b. al-Azraq and answered by ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbbās (d. 687 CE / 68 AH), Companion ( ṣaḥābī ) of Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ. ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ر ز س ش ص ض ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي 8th Century Al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī, Kitāb al-ʿAin (d. 786 CE) كتاب العين للخليل بن أحمد الفراهيدي Browse تصفح Kitāb al-ʿAin is the first dictionary of the Arabic language ever written. It was written by al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad (died 786 CE / 170 AH) and organized by his friend and student the scholar al-Layth bin Muẓaffar al-Kinānī (al-Azharī considers al-Kinānī the true writer of Kitāb al-ʿAin ). Kitāb al-ʿAin is one of the foundational texts of Arabic linguistics, as it is a primary source that does not depend on other texts, but on the vast knowledge of the writer himself. Al-Khalīl acted as a teacher to some of the greatest scholars of the Arabic language, including Sībawayh, al-Aṣmaʿī, al-Kisāʾī, Hārūn bin Mūsā al-Naḥwī, Wahb bin Jurayr and al-Juhdhumī. ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي 9th Century Al-Aṣmaʿī, Ishtiqāq al-Asmāʾ (d. 831 CE) اشتقاق الأسماء للأصمعي Browse تصفح ʿAbdul Malik al-Aṣmaʿī al-Bāhilī (died 831 CE / 216 AH) is one of the primary authorities on the Arabic language. His Ishtiqāq contains rare information, perhaps not found anywhere else, on the origins of certain Arabic words. Al-Aṣmaʿī studied under some of the great scholars of Islamic history, including Mālik ibn Anas, Sufyān al-Thawrī, al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī, Ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī, Ibn al-ʿAlāʾ Abū ʿAmr al-Baṣrī and al-Kisāʾī. ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ر ز س ش ص ط ع غ ف ق ل م ن ه و ي Ibn Abī Thābit al-Lughawī, Al-Farq (c. 835 CE) الفرق لابن أبي ثابت Browse تصفح Al-Farq is a book concerned with the differences in terminology in words used to refer to human body parts compared to animal body parts. It was written by the Ibn Abī Thābit al-Lughawī, about whom little is known other than his being a respected grammarian of the Kufic school in the third century AH. There is a report of him being active in the year 220 AH, equivalent to c. 835 CE. ا خ ف ق م ن Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim bin Salām al-Harawī, Gharīb al-Ḥadīth (d. 838 CE) غريب الحديث لأبي عبيد القاسم بن سلام Browse تصفح Al-Qāsim bin Salām, often referred to as Abū ʿUbayd (d. c. 839 CE / 224 AH) says that he spent forty years writing this book, which is concerned with difficult and unusual words found in the hadith of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ. Abū ʿUbayd, who was mixed Arab and Persian, had made the study of hadith the work of his life, considering it a form of worship. His Gharīb al-Ḥadīth was one of the main references used by the scholars of hadith in their interpretation of texts of hadith. ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī, Risālat al-Khaṭṭ wa-l-Qalam (d. 885 CE) رسالة الخط والقلم لابن قتيبة Browse تصفح This Risāla (Epistle) is a short work on terminology used in the book writing and publishing industry of Ibn Qutayba’s time (d. 885 CE / 276 AH). Ibn Qutayba was a Persian scholar and polymath who served as a judge in Dīnawar (in Iran) during the Abbasid period. ا Ibn al-Tustarī al-Kātib, al-Mudhakkar wa-l-Muʾannath (d. 896 CE) المذكر والمؤنث لابن التستري الكاتب Browse تصفح Saʿīd b. Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī, known as Ibn al-Tustarī al-Kātib (d. 972 CE / 361 H) was a Christian poet and writer about whom apparently very little is known. His Mudhakkar wa-l-Muʾannath is a dictionary of the genders of Arabic nouns. This dictionary was formerly erroneously attributed to the mystic Sahl al-Tustarī on our website. ا ب ج ح خ د ذ غ ق م و 10th Century Ghulām Thaʿlab, al-ʿAsharāt fī Gharīb al-Lugha (d. 957 CE) العشرات في غريب اللغة لمحمد بن عبد الواحد الزاهد غلام ثعلب Browse تصفح Ghulām Thaʿlab (d. 957 CE / 345 AH) was a Persian religious scholar and philologist from Khorasan who wrote books on the Quran, hadith and the Arabic language. His book ʿAsharāt fī Gharīb al-Lugha is a useful reference that many other scholars benefited from, such as Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī in his Buldān and al-Qayrawānī in his ʿAsharāt . ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ر ش ص ض ط ع ف ق ك ل م ن و Al-Ṣāḥib bin ʿAbbād, Al-Muḥīṭ fī l-Lugha (d. c. 995 CE) المحيط في اللغة للصاحب بن عباد Browse تصفح Al-Ṣāḥib bin ʿAbbād (d. c. 995 CE / 385 AH) was a Persian Shiite scholar, poet and grand vizier of the Buyid Dyansty, known as one of the greatest scholars of his age. His Muḥīṭ (not to be confused with Firuzabadi’s Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ ) is meant as a complete dictionary of Standard Arabic, comprising 1300 pages. The entries are arranged in the manner of al-Khalīl’s Kitāb al-ʿAin . ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي 11th Century Ismāʿīl bin Ḥammād al-Jawharī, Tāj al-Lugha wa Ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿArabīya (d. 1003 CE) تاج اللغة وصِحاح العربية للجوهري Browse تصفح This book, more commonly known as the Ṣiḥāḥ , caused a revolution in Arabic lexicography as it differed from the format preferrred by al-Khalīl bin Aḥmad (see Kitāb al-ʿAin , also on our site), giving the ḥurūf al-hijāʾ their own chapters, rather than treating them as second class. Al-Jawharī (d. 1003 CE / 393 AH) is one of the great linguists and lexicographers of the Arabic language. He came from the city of Fārāb on the Silk Road, in modern-day Kazakhstan, and traveled throughout the Middle East and Arabia in search of knowledge of the Arabic language. The Ṣiḥāḥ is one of the most commonly used dictionaries of the Arabic language to this day, and abridged versions of it, such as al-Rāzī’s Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ , are still in print and used by both scholars and laymen. ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha (d. 1004 CE) مقاييس اللغة لابن فارس Browse تصفح Ibn Fāris (d. 1004 CE / 395 AH) is one of the great scholars of the Islamic world, having written important books on Arabic linguistics, poetry, the Quran and various Islamic sciences. He was Persian and came form the Caspian Sea area of Persia. His Maqāyīs al-Lugha is based on five books: Kitāb al-ʿAin of al-Khalīl bin Aḥmad, Gharīb al-Ḥadīth and al-Gharīb al-Muṣannaf of Abū...