Lane's Arabic - English Lexicon -- online & pdf download
Salam, While checking some online resources, I came to see that Lane's Arabic - English Lexicon is available online and can be downloaded as pdf (image) files. Anyone who dealt with scholarly translation of Arabic into English knows this master work as the ultimate Arabic-English dictionary. It is so meticulous and comprehensive; it is to Arabic-English, as the (unabridged) Oxford English Dictionary is to English. Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was an English man who studied Arabic and Islam and lived long time in Egypt. He spent almost the last 30 years of his life working on his massive dictionary. It is mainly based on the largest Arabic dictionaries, Lis a n al-`Arab and T a j al-`Ar u s. I find it amazing that he worked this in the 19th century when such huge Arabic dictionaries were still in hand-written manuscripts. To have an idea how massive undertaking this was; Lisan al-`Arab is about 15 printed volumes while Taj al-`Arus is 20. Lane's Lexicon was pub