Arabic-L:TRANS:dictionary responses

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Date:  14 Nov 2001
From: Tim Buckwalter <TimBuckwalter at aol.com>
Subject: dictionary response

I recommend that you add the English-Arabic "Munjid" to your collection. The
Lebanese produce beautiful bilingual dictionaries and this one is no
exception:

Thiyuduri, Qustantin. al-Mounged : English-Arabic / by C. Theodory. 1st. ed.
Beirut : Librairie Orientale, 1996. $22.00 (U.S.). 996, [164] p. : ill. ; 25
cm. English-Arabic dictionary.  LCN: 97963228

also listed as:
Theodory, C.: al-Mounged : english - arabic / by C. Theodory .- 2. éd .-
Beirut: Librairie Orientale, 1997 .- 996, 20, 143 S. : Ill

and also:
Theodory, Constantin
Al-Mounged: English-Arabic / by C. Theodory. -- 2nd. ed.. -- Beirut :
Librairie Orientale, 1997
Contiene : Appendices : I. Irregular verbs -- II. Countries, related nouns,
adjectives and capitals -- III. Chemical symbols -- IV. Comparative proverbs
Contiene : Biographical names, p. 1-143

Tim
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Date:  14 Nov 2001
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: dictionary response

Timothy,
I would suggest to add two general dictionaries:

- Al Mu'jam Al-'Asasi, ALECSO, Larousse, Arabic-Arabic. It won't help you
to look up words for your English-Arabic translations, but if you work the
way I do (I need some word containing the root KTB or ShRB), you can
benefit from this book.

- Al Qamoos CD-ROM, produced by Sakhr (Arabic enabled Windows). Check their
website or ARAMEDIA (you're welcome George). This does not add so many new
translations etc, but it is a valuable compilation of existing dictionaries
(Mawrid, Wehr and others).
and it's very fast. I use it for checking vocalisation etc.

Good luck.
Jan

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3)
Date:  14 Nov 2001
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: dictionary response


Please note that most, if not ALL, Arabic translation software
require MS Arabic Windows. Your best bet would be An Nakel's
Specialized Dictionaries which are not shown on the site, if I post
the whole thing, Dil would snip it and slap me on back of the head.

An-Nakel is also available in single direction translation. Bi-Di
is the way to go. For more information, go to our machine
translation webpage:

http://aramedia.com/aschome.htm

Machine Translation Software

An-Nakel* Bidirectional Translation Software Ar-En-Ar $995.00
An-Nakel* One Way Arabic to English Translation Software $695.00
An-Nakel* One Way English to Arabic Translation Software $695.00
Easy Lingo, Instant Translator English-Arabic. ANY Win 95/98/NT $25.00
Al-Mutarjim* Professional Machine Translation Software $699.00
Al-Wafi* Arabic Translator CD $120.00 (Not too good)

(*) Requires MS Arabic Windows.

Dictionaries are available, mostly for Arabic Windows, except for
Bishai's ADAM edition, which will work with you English Windows.
MS Arabic software is multilingual, Arabic and English, installing
Arabic Windows will NOT loose you English files or ability.

Arsabic/English/Arabic Dictionaries

Bishai Dictionary of Literary Arabic ADAM for MS Windows $59.00
Bishai Dictionary of Literary Arabic NAD* for MS Arabic Windows $59.00
Bishai Dictionary of Literary Arabic SAAD for MS-DOS $59.00
Sakhr's Al-Qamoos* Dictionary Multilingual Ar/En/Fr/Ger/Tur $70.00
Sakhr's Al-Qamoos* Dictionary Bilingual Arabic/English $60.00
Sakhr's Qamoosi Al-Ajeeb My Incredible Dictionary $24.00
Islamic Dictionary CD is $50.00
English-Arabic English Only Talking Dictionary 450,000 Words $199.00

(*) Requires MS Arabic Windows.

http://aramedia.com/aschome.htm

Arabic/English PS-2 Keyboard is available for $49.00.
Arabic/English Keyboard Stickers for either Laptop or Desktop are
available for $15.00 each:

http://www.aramedia.com/keyboard-ar.htm
http://aramedia.com/stickers.htm

You are welcome to contact me, directly, for more information.

Best Regards,

George N. Hallak
AramediA Group
http://www.aramedia.com
T 617-825-3044 F 617-265-9648


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