Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary [Paperback]

Leonard Newmark (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198603223 | ISBN-13: 978-0198603221 | Publication Date: March 16, 2000

The largest and most comprehensive bilingual dictionary of Albanian, The Albanian-English Dictionary is an essential reference for all those concerned with modern Albanian, whether students, scholars, translators, or in professional contexts. Over 75,000 entries cover idioms and scientific definitions as well as modern Albanian and the book includes pronunciation guidance and generous examples of usage.

Editorial Reviews

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`Extremely valuable and thorough User's Guide.' Forum for Modern Language Studies vol.37, no 3

`Important information on stress and pronunciation.' Forum for Modern Language Studies vol. 37, no 3

About the Author

Professor Leonard Newmark is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of California, and Research Linguist at the Centre for Research in Language.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1056 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 16, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198603223
• ISBN-13: 978-0198603221
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #667,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #6 in Books > Education & Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language > Albanian
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prime linguistic resource--but not first pick for travel, December 6, 2004

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Jay L. Griffin (Sedona, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary (Paperback)

Newmark has made a top-notch tome worthy of the Oxford name. His coverage of modern and literary ancient Albanian is listed very well by the following reviewer.

Realize that this book is only from Albanian to English. So it is very comprehensive if you are translating Albanian works, but not readily useable if you speak English and want to express yourself in Albanian. Due to this 'one-way' aspect, English-speakers *won't* find it helpful as a travel dictionary--besides the fact it's not a portable size.

As a literary, linguistic reference, it shines bright. If you are or speak Albanian, you will find this much more scholarly than Pavli Qesku's excellent dictionaries that are available/published in Albania.

If you travel to Albania and intend to become a student of the language, I recommend you acquire two books by Pavli Qesku published by EDFA-Tiranë: Fjalor Anglisht-Shqip and Fjalor Shqip-Anglisht. You can buy these bound together as a single volume, but I find it much easier to use them as separate books since you can have them both open to the entries you are looking up for cross-referencing. Respectively, they each contain 40,000 and 35,000 entries and 100,000 and 150,000 phrases.

Also while in Albania, look for Mandalina Losha and Kathryn Church's Practical Albanian for Foreigners and Basic Albanian Grammar for Foreigners. These are written in English and workbook format for serious study. For learning how to pronounce Albanian, there really is no subsitute for a real Albanian--it's hard for an English speaker to get the phonetics correct without a live tutor.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most excellent dictionaries that I have seen, April 22, 2002

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Linas Kondratas - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary (Paperback)

The Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary is an example what a serious lexicographer can achieve when he puts all his knowledge and energy in his work.

The features of the dictionary:

- it covers indeed very large vocabullary and gives almost-complete coverage of the language
- makes extensive use of grammar, stylistic etc. notes
- there is plenty idioms, examples of use, colloquial and slang expressions
- for many words it lists not only the dictionary form, but derived forms as well if they cannot be easily figured from the dictionary form(which occurs in Albanian quite frequently)
- there is a sketch of Albanian grammar in the beginning of the dictionary
- it contains also a "back dictionary" which lists all possible two(sometimes three) letter combinations that can occur at the end of Albanian words and gives for them grammatical values that these letters can represent(eg. masculine definite accusative-nominative or 2nd person of present tense etc.)
- there is a list which lists orthographical and phonetical pecularities of non-Standard Albanian and their equivalents in the Standard Albanian. Many words deemed "non-Standard" are included into the dictionary.

Although I am a real beginner in Albanian and some days ago I litteraly didn't know a single word of this language, yet with the help of this dictionary I was able to find out the sense of several short poems in Albanian!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Leading albanian-english dictionary, December 23, 2007

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Krishchenko - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary (Paperback)

It's now the most formidable and trusted Albanian-English dictionary with quick-reference verb tables and guide to Albanian grammar. This dictionay contains over 85.000 words and phrases and 150.000 translations.