Are these Classical Arabic dictionaries available somewhere?

Reply to Are these Classical Arabic dictionaries available somewhere? on Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:38:07 GMT

Wakas — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:38:07 GMT

FM doesn't really have a dedicated resources section, but probably would be better to have one.

Try here

www.StudyQuran.org

Reply to Are these Classical Arabic dictionaries available somewhere? on Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:26:34 GMT

herbman — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:26:34 GMT

Peace all, Wakas,

Why don't you create a section "Resources" with all the links so they are not lost in discussions OR just listed in LINKS in the main page of FM.

Peace

Reply to Are these Classical Arabic dictionaries available somewhere? on Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:24:32 GMT

Samia — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:24:32 GMT

peace all,

I came across the following work in which it listed Arabic Dictionaries in order of when they were written. I am wondering if any of the early ones are available online or to buy in book form.

Kitab al Ayn

Kitab al Dajmharah

Makayis al Lughah

Al Sihah

Anyone know?

Makayis al Lugha and Al Sah-hah (the corrector) (If that's what you mean by Al Sihah), Lisanul Arab and two more CAD's are all on this link

www.baheth.info

and one search gets you the meaning in all 5 CAD's.
Al Ayn can be downloaded from here (9 volumes)

http//www.archive.org/details/alaeen_Farahidi

Reply to Are these Classical Arabic dictionaries available somewhere? on Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:24:31 GMT

thegod — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:24:31 GMT

Al Ayn appears to be the earliest lexicon (going back to the eight century), and its author Farahidi is credited as having been a major influence on the shaping of the vowel marks as we have them today.

Al Djamharah possibly goes back to the ninth century, and the other two to the tenth century.

Reply to Are these Classical Arabic dictionaries available somewhere? on Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:24:27 GMT

herbman — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:24:27 GMT

peace all,

I came across the following work in which it listed Arabic Dictionaries in order of when they were written. I am wondering if any of the early ones are available online or to buy in book form.

Kitab al Ayn

Kitab al Dajmharah

Makayis al Lughah

Al Sihah

Anyone know?

Salam Wakas,

el 3ein can be either downloaded here or accessed online
http//www.archive.org/details/alaeen_Farahidi

Peace

Reply to Are these Classical Arabic dictionaries available somewhere? on Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:24:25 GMT

Wakas — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:24:25 GMT

Found the following

http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/Lexicon.htm

Kitab al Ayn (4 volumes)
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/alFarhidi/kamhm1.pdf
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/alFarhidi/kamhm2.pdf
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/alFarhidi/kamhm3.pdf
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/alFarhidi/kamhm4.pdf

Makayis al Lughah (6 volumes)
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/ibnFaris/mml1p.pdf
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/ibnFaris/mml1.pdf
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/ibnFaris/mml2.pdf
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/ibnFaris/mml3.pdf
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/ibnFaris/mml4.pdf
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/ibnFaris/mml5.pdf
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/ibnFaris/mml6.pdf

Al Sihah (7 volumes)
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/alJawhari/alSihah_intro.pdf
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/alJawhari/alSihah_1_6.pdf
http//www.aboutquran.com/res/lex/alJawhari/alSihah_7.pdf

Since these pre-date Lisan al Arab for example, may be interesting seeing what they say for various things.