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Concise Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage (Hardcover)

by S. Khulusi (Contributor), N. Shamaa (Contributor), W. K. Davin (Contributor), N. S. Doniach (Editor)

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Hardcover: 461 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford; Subsequent edition (20 Jan 1983)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0198643217
ISBN-13: 978-0198643210
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.1 x 2.8 cm

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This is a shortened and updated version of the "Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary", designed to meet the needs of the Arabic speaker learning English. It records the different levels of usage met with in newspapers, radio and TV as well as films. Where familiar, colloquial and slang levels are indicated, the major Arabic dialectical equivalents have been given.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Very poor typesetting., 15 Feb 2007

By	VN (London, England) - See all my reviews

I bought this dictionary in the hope that it would supplement Hans Wehr's Arabic-English dictionary as a way to look up English words in Arabic. This book fails to be useful in a number of ways:

Firstly, the typsetting is tiny and illegible. Many Arabic characters look like they have been manually written in rather than actually typeset in a crisp font. This makes reading very difficult, especially for beginner/intermediate learners.

Secondly, there is no vocalization of the Arabic words, making it difficult to get a good feeling for the word. Though it can be argued that once you have the right word, you can look it up in Wehr to find out how to vocalize it, you would expect such an exercise to be more efficient... after all, this is a dictionary!

Thirdly, there isn't any clear organisation and cross-referencing of words. It's just basically a long list of (sometimes illegible) words. For example, looking up "Eat" will give you this big blurb, starting with "AKL" and a whole other bunch of words which the beginner would have no clue how to interpret. So then, does the Arabic word for eat just come from "AKL", or does it include the blurb afterwards?

These three issues seriously cringe any additional productivity this book might offer you. Over the time I've had it, it's served more as a paperweight than a reference.

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2.0 out of 5 stars No frills, and not very user-friendly., 4 Feb 2005

By	Mr. J. Dickinson (Rotherham, South Yorkshire) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you're thinking of buying this dictionary then you may well be someone like me, i.e. an English speaker who is beginning to learn Arabic, and if this is the case I think you will be disappointed.
The dictionary is simply very basic. It is an English word list with Arabic translations at the side. This means that if you come across a new Arabic word and you want to know what it means you won't be able to find out using this dictionary; you can only look up English words and find their Arabic translation. It does not include romanistations. It does not include any extra material such as a pronunciation guide, introduction to the Arabic script, verb tables, grammatical information or cultural information. There is a one page introduction in English that doesn't tell you anything useful, then the word list, and that's it.
I think this dictionary would probably be fairly useful for a native Arabic speaker with intermediate English. If this is not you then I wouldn't buy it. I bought it and I almost never use it - mainly because there are better dictionary resources freely available on the internet (just do a google search for "Arabic dictionary") that let you search for English or Arabic words.
You may think it unreasonable to expect more from a 'concise' dictionary in this price range, but go look at a concise Spanish-English dictionary - you will get a basic introduction to Spanish pronunciation, you will probably get verb tables and it will have an English-Spanish half and a Spanish-English half.

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