QALAM 1
QALAM 2
USEFUL LINKS
BOOKS
USEFUL LINKS
Dictionaries and Glossaries
- Mawrid Reader (a single search, by root letters for example "k t b", for the contents of 27 printed dictionaries,)
- Almaany.com (Arabic-English, English-Arabic, including new words not found in traditional dictionaries)
- Glosbe (multilingual dictionaries based on bilingual corpora)
- Reverso Context (multilingual dictionaries based on bilingual corpora)
- The Quranic Arabic Corpus (for the meaning, morphology and frequency of use of each word in the Qur'an)
- Babylon English-Arabic Dictionary - Babylon (English-Arabic)
- Arab2English Dictionary - Babylon
Audio
- http://www.arabic.ru/hear/tale/tale1.html (readings from "Ali Baba and the Fourty Thieves" - Russian interface)
- http://www.iub.edu/~smac/summer/rec_text_a100.htm (lessons and drills for beginners)
- http://arabic.euronews.net/ (Euronews in Arabic. Audio with transcripts.)
- http://memritv.org/ (hundreds of video clips on a variety of contemporary topics - subtitled)
- http://www.france24.com/ar/ (French news channel, with Arabic service. Click on البث المباشر.)
- http://www.aljazeera.net/Channel/Livestreaming (Aljazeera news channel)
Texts & Literature
- Lyrikline: poems in Arabic, with translation (+ audio)
- Shamela: corpus of Arabic texts NEW
- A history of Arabic literature by Clément Huart (1903)
- Littérature arabe (1902)
- Arabic reader by Chaim Rabin (1947)
- An aid to practical written Arabic: texts & vocabulary, by John van Ess (1920)
- Arabic reading lessons consisting of easy extracts from the best authors, by Duncan Forbes (1864)
- → the Quran in Arabic, English & other languages
First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
يولد جميع الناس أحرارًا متساوين في الكرامة والحقوق
وقد وهبوا عقلاً وضميرًا وعليهم أن يعامل بعضهم بعضًا بروح الإخاء
وقد وهبوا عقلاً وضميرًا وعليهم أن يعامل بعضهم بعضًا بروح الإخاء
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسان translation into Arabic (+ audio)
- → First article in different languages
- → Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Arabic, English & other languages
Grammar
- Arabic simplified, practical grammar of written Arabic in 200 lessons, by Arthur Upson (1921)
- Arabic grammar of the written language by Griffithes Wheeler Thatcher (1922)
- Elementary Arabic, grammar by Frederic du Pre Thornton, Arabic grammar (1919): I & II - III - IV
- Grammar of the Arabic language by Carl Paul Caspari, translated by William Wright (1896): I & II
- Arabic grammar, paradigms, literature, exercises and glossary, by Albert Socin (1895)
- Practical grammar of the Arabic language & dialogues, vocabulary, by Faris Ash-Shidyâq (1891)
- The Arabic manual by Edward Henry Palmer (1885)
- A grammar of the Arabic language (1874)
- A Grammar of the Arabick language by John Richardson (1776)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_grammar (summary of Arabic grammar)
- http://home.unilang.org/main/wiki2/index.php/Arabic:_Verb_Reference (Arabic verb stem patterns and basic conjugation)
- http://www.dalilusa.com/Arabic_Course/glossary_arabic_grammar.asp (Arabic grammatical terminology)
- Frames Layout (Arabic verb conjugations)
- http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/mjiyad/Arabic Grammar Book.doc (mini-grammar book)
- ACON, the Arabic Conjugator - conjugate Arabic verbs online (free verb conjugator!)
- Hocharabisch Grammatik online lernen (arabische Grammatik im Überblick - auf Deutsch/in German)
- http://www.reefnet.gov.sy/Arabic_Proficiency/Arabic_Proficiency_Index.htm (Grammatical tips and rules concerning correct writing in Arabic)
- فهرس كتاب الكفاف قواعد اللغة العربية (various grammatical explanations in Arabic - with explanations of how to use many Arabic particles)
- Arabic Online - Free Comprehensive Resource of Arabic Grammar (various grammatical explanations - as well as vocabulary lists, information on the history of Arabic, and more)
- http://arabic.desert-sky.net/g_conj.html (Conjugation of verbs in MSA and Egyptian)
- Brief List of Arabic Word Roots (Arabic word roots)
- Arabic Verb, Arabic Conjugator and Analyzer - Conjugate Arabic Verbs Online (Verb conjugator)
- b119.org - b119 Resources and Information. (paradigms for the derivative verbal forms/stems)
- Cooljugator: The Smart Conjugator in Modern Standard Arabic (Verb conjugator)
- كتاب: إعراب القرآن الكريم|نداء الإيمان
Vocabulary
- http://orientx.unizh.ch:9080/nabori/overview.jsp (test your knowledge of Arabic vocabulary [German site])
- http://www.jordanianarabic.com/arabicclass/myclass.html (basic vocabulary lists)
- http://www.jordanianarabic.com/arabicclass/vocabnew/vocabulary/index.html (vocabulary lists with pictures)
- http://www.languageguide.org/arabic/ (basic vocabulary, with some grammar)
- http://arabic.desert-sky.net/index.html (basic vocabulary, MSA and Egyptian)
News
About Arabic
- http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0804477.html (about the Arabic language – general)
- http://www.pacificarabic.com/resources/diglossia.shtml (about Arabic diglossia)
- http://www.pacificarabic.com/resources/whystudy.shtml (“Why study Arabic?”)
- http://www.alhewar.net/Basket/Habeeb_Salloum_Spanish_Language.htm (about Arabic influences on the Spanish language)
- http://www.chj.de/index.html (about the Arabic language, its writing system, and more - site in German)
- http://arabworld.nitle.org/introduction.php?module_id=1 (about Arabic - general)
- http://semitistik.uni-hd.de/seeger/english/ramalla_e.htm (about the Arabic dialect of central Palestine - with recordings)
- http://arabicgems.wordpress.com/ (various fascinating aspects of the Arabic language)
- http://www.yabeyrouth.com/pages/index2849.htm (articles about Arabic, poetic wonders, lists of common errors, and more)
- http://www.wm.edu/aata/arabic.php (about the Arabic language, with demonstrations of how to write the letters)
- http://arabic.desert-sky.net/faq.html (Arabic FAQ's)
Alphabet and Writing
Alphabet and Writing
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet
- http://www.sakkal.com/ArtArabicCalligraphy.html (about calligraphy)
- Yamli - يملي: محرك بحث عربي ومحول الحروف
- Intellark (Virtual notepad for the English-based (Intellark) layout) (about the Arabic alphabet)
- The structure of Arabic language and orthography by Elinor Saiegh & Roni Henkin, in Handbook of Arabic literacy (2014)
- The evolution of Arabic writing due to European influence: the case of punctuation, by Dana Awad, in Journal of Arabic & Islamic studies (2015)
- Arabic in its Semitic context by John Huehnergard, in Arabic in context (2017)
- Arabic language (Arabic and Persian languages in contact) in Encylopædia Iranica
- Arabic lexicography, its history and its place in the general history of lexicography, by John Haywood (1960)
- The phonetics of Arabic by William Henry Temple Gairdner (1925)
BOOKS
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