Arabic Dictionaries

Works of Arabic Dictionaries

• Kitāb al-ʿAin of al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad
• The Ṣiḥāḥ of al-Jawharī
• The Muḥkam of Ibn Sīda
• The Mufradāt of Al-Rāghib al-Isfahānī
• Asās al-Balāgha of al-Zamakhshari
• Lisān al-ʿArab of Ibn Manẓūr
• Al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ of Firuzabadi
• Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī’s Tāj al-ʿArūs
• Al-Mawrid of Rohi and Munir Baalbaki
• The Arabic-English Lexicon of W. E. Lane

Kitab al-Ayn كتاب العين‎)	Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi	8th century		Kitab al-Ayn was the first dictionary for the Arabic language.
Kitab al-Jim (Arabic: كتاب الجيم‎) a.k.a. Kitab al-Lughat or Kitab al-Huruf	Abu Amr al-Shaybani	8-9th century		The only copy is in the El Escorial Library.[2]
Al-Jamhara al-Lugha: جمهرة اللغة‎) a.k.a. Al-Jamhara fi al-Lugha (The all-embracing in language)	Ibn Duraid	9-10th century		The dictionary was inspired in part by the earlier dictionary Kitab al-Ayn of al-Farahidi.
Tahdhib al-Lugha: تهذيب اللغة‎)	Abu Manshur al-Azhari al-Harawi	10th century		The dictionary is important as a source of the Lisan al-Arab.
Al-Muhit fi al-Lugha: المحيط في اللغة‎)	Al-Sahib ibn Abbad	10th century
Taj al-Lugha wa Sihah al-Arabiyya (Arabic: تاج اللغة وصحاح العربية‎) shorter title: Taj al-Lugha or al-Sihah	Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari (Arabic:	10-11th century	It contains about 40,000 dictionary entries.[7]
Al-Muhkam wa al-Muhit al-A’zam	Ibn Sidah	11th century		The author was a blind man.
Lisan al-Arab	Ibn Manzur	The dictionary was completed in 1290.	It contains about 80,000 dictionary entries.
Al-Qamus al-Muhit wa al-Qabus al-Wasit	Al-Firuzabadi	The dictionary was completed in 1410.	It contains about 60,000 dictionary entries.	The dictionary served as the basis of later European dictionaries of Arabic.
Taj al-Arus Min Jawahir al-Qamus	Al-Murtada al-Zabidi	The dictionary was completed in 1774.	It contains about 120,000 dictionary entries.
Muhit al-Muhit	Butrus al-Bustani	The dictionary was completed in 1870.		The author had dedicated the work to the Sultan Abdulaziz. The sultan awarded him with a higher medal and 250 golden liras.