العربية Arabic
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Dictionaries
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- Notes: For online use.
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- Notes: For online use.
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Searchable Arabic-English Lexicon
- Notes: The same as the text above, but searchable.
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- Notes: For the words of the Quran.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: A nice PDF file with a lot of explanations.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: An even nicer PDF file with even more explanations.
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The Easy Dictionary of the Quran
- Format: PDF
- Notes: With a very useful index at the beginning.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: Another very, very long PDF.
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- Notes: A list of words appearing in the Quran.
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- Notes: An attempt at documenting the roots of the words in the Quran.
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- Notes: A very old lexicon.
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Dictionary of Arabic Philosophy
- Format: PDF
- Notes: A PDF created from a website.
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Online Dictionary of Arabic Philosophical Terms
- Format: PDF
- Notes: A bit easier to navigate than the PDF above.
Grammars
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Handbook for the Study of Arabic
- Format: PDF
- Notes: No grammar, but many useful tips for studying the language.
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An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic
- Format: PDF
- Notes: A very good place to start if you’re looking to learn to read.
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Fundamentals of Classical Arabic
- Format: PDF
- Notes: Conjugating regular verbs and nouns in this volume.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: An older PDF, but a good resource.
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- Notes: A very old and comprehensive grammar; you can download all the parts at this site, and there’s a very useful index for grammar topics as well.
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- Notes: Various ways of doing it on this site.
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- Notes: The links for the grammar topics are on the right side.
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- Notes: Adapted to the capacity of the young, so this should be for everyone!
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A Practical Grammar of the Arabic Language
- Notes: If we’re really being practical, though, we wouldn’t be trying to learn this language!
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An Aid to Practical Written Arabic
- Notes: All this practicality is just too much!
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- Notes: The oldest book of the bunch!
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: Easy? Maybe not so much.
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Handbook for the Study of Arabic
- Format: PDF
- Notes: No grammar, but many useful tips for studying the language.
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- Notes: Many different books, all available for download.
Charts & Aids
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: In PDF form.
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Fundamentals of Classical Arabic
- Format: PDF
- Notes: Lots of useful charts for verbs and nouns.
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Understand Arabic in 12 Tables
- Format: PDF
- Notes: Eh, it will probably take a bit more effort than this to understand it, but the tables are in color.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: In a website, not a PDF.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: Pretty short, but it has a sheet for practice.
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Dictionary of Arabic Verb Conjugation
- Format: PDF
- Notes: An enormous PDF.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: A lot of different verbs, with a lot of ways of learning about the conjugations, including some really nice PDFs.
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- Notes: Again, “easy” might be a relative term here.
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Arabic Verb and Noun Conjugation PDFs
- Notes: Lots of different examples.
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- Notes: A short explanation.
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- Notes: A few short tables.
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- Notes: More tables on this page.
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- Notes: A useful explanation of how the cases work.
Texts
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- Notes: Bible texts online in many languages with parallel viewing.
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- Notes: Requires the djvu viewer.
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Duke Online Arabic Manuscripts
- Notes: Lots of information, images, and description.
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- Notes: With some good explanations for each part.
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- Notes: Somewhat easier to navigate that the site above.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: All in Arabic, a PDF.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: Arabic, with English translation.
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- Notes: Bible texts online in many languages with parallel viewing.
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- Notes: Requires the djvu viewer.
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Duke Online Arabic Manuscripts
- Notes: Lots of information, images, and description.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: Transliterated into English, that is.
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A history of Arabic literature
- Format: PDF
- Notes: An old book in PDF form, but useful for an overview.
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- Notes: This is actually pretty useful, since the texts are somewhat annotated.
Other Resources
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: An older book, available in PDF format.
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- Notes: A brief explanation of the history.
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- Notes: This is actually pretty long!
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: An entire book.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: A somewhat brief introduction.
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