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

It’s a great resource for anyone interested in learning Arabic.

The dictionary is still the best English-Arabic option I've been able to find, but this oversized version is entirely useless. It's margins are so massively oversized there's a couple of inches of white space on each side of the page! It's useless in academic study because, with these margins (and the initial letters for the word you searching 2inches in), it takes forever to find anything in class or during personal use... you'll give up and use an online Arabic dictionary that actually labels the مسدر (and variations when you get confused) or includes the short vowels outside of transliterations (I understand it's a lot of extra work, but it's been around since the 40s? Let that publication date sink in)...it's a really amazing dictionary, just don't deal with the Snowball publication...find the Compact version, idk why it's currently more expensive, but get a used if you can. Even if you can't, don't waste your money on this. Spend $30 (or get it used!!!) for the vastly more readable and portable compact version

Nothing it's great

This is possibly the most confusing purchase I’ve ever made on Amazon. The cover is accurate, but when I opened the book I was surprised to find that instead of an English/Arabic dictionary it was instead a large, comprehensive book full of herbal medicine, and not an Arabic word in sight.I would hope this can be explained somehow, like some wild error by the publisher, because this does not appear to be a fake seller. I will update my rating stars when I get this returned, refunded and/or resent depending on the situation. For now, as a beginner Arabic student who was very excited to add this to my collection of resources, I’m pretty disappointed :/

Although it was listed as bn publishing 2020, my copy was Snowball Publishing with no copyright date anyplace. It is very big and very heavy, but it is merely a bigger photocopy of the 4th edition. Nothing is changed.

This book is not the 4th edition (1979; 1994). I compared it to my old copies of the 3rd (1961) & 4th editions, and, aside from the missing front matter, this copy is the the same as the 3rd ed. What they are selling here is basically a bootleg copy of the 3rd edition with the copyright info removed. It begins with Cowan's 1960 preface and goes from there.If you want an oversized hardbound copy of the 3rd edition, this copy will suffice. The size and weight of this book makes it suitable only for office use. As bootleg copies of books go, this one is of good quality. But if you really want the 4th edition, you'll probably have to find a used copy.

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Good

Is rightly considered to be the Arabic - English reference.

too big

The Amazon listing is misleading - it's not a new publication from June 2020. It's actually the 4th version just re-printed in 1 volume, it has 1110 pages. The only date you'll find inside the book is 1960. It's the same as this:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arabic-English-Dictionary-Modern-Written-Arabic/dp/1607963876The only difference is it's a physically bigger book because they've made the margins around the page much wider.When I emailed Snowball Publishing about it, they replied telling me that the publication date of this copy was 14th June 2020. So when I subsequently asked them why this isn't printed in the book (if it is true), they stopped responding to my emails. Strange I know - but letting others be aware.Also, there is a printing error on page 1015 - the letter "ه" has not been printed (to denote the start of its section).