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Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic (Richard Slade Harrell Arabic Series) (Paperback)

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Product Description
Dictionary provides Arabic to English translations.

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Text: English
Original Language: Arabic

Product Details

Paperback: 524 pages
Publisher: Georgetown University Press; 2nd edition (January 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0878402810
ISBN-13: 978-0878402816
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds

Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,216,000 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good dialect dictionary of the Iraqi dialect, January 4, 2004

By	J. E. S. Leake "sailor and scholar" (Offshore, Persian Gulf) - See all my reviews

Like all similar dictionaries, this is a dialect dictionary and is a guide to the vocabulary of the informal spoken language, not the written language. If you need a guide to the written language, buy Hans Wehr's Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic instead. Dialect dictionaries are, like this one, normally written in romanized form, as the Arabic script is of little use for pronunciation, especially where vowel qualities and stress are concerned.

Examples:

English ... Written Arabic ... Iraqi Arabic
'book' ... /kitaab/ written <ktb> ... /kitaab/
'dog' ... /kalb/ written <klb> ... /chalb/
'with' ... /ma9a/ written <m9> ... /ma9/ or /wiiya/
'there is' ... (no word in written Arabic) ... /aakuu/

As you can see, some words are the same and could easily be written in Arabic script (/kitaab/), some have letters peculiar to Iraqi (<ch> and <g>), some words are different from written Arabic words (/wiiya/) and some words simply don't have written Arabic forms (/aakuu/). I agree that it would be convenient to have the written Arabic words as well but it would have been a lot of extra work (Van Ess in his now very out-of-date teaching book "The Spoken Arabic of Iraq" does so, and properly doesn't try to force spoken to fit the written Arabic but gives the written forms in Arabic script with vowel marks and the Iraqi colloquial in romanized form, which is a boon to anyone who's studied written Arabic at all).

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4.0 out of 5 stars Useful, February 5, 2005

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This review is from: A Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic: English, Arabic/Arabic, English (Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics) (Paperback)

I agree with another reviewer...it's more helpful to have everything written in Arabic. And, while the dialect is technically not a written language, there are ways to write it...modifications that have been made to aid in the pronounciation of the dialect while still using Arabic letters. That would be MUCH better.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, August 4, 2003

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This review is from: A Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic: English, Arabic/Arabic, English (Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics) (Paperback)

A very timely book that I found to be quite useful. I've been studying arabic for over a decade and have yet to find a better book which is so methodical in its approach.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Nice idea, poor execution
This book is ok for looking up words in english and finding the iraqi pronounciation. It is useless for looking up words in arabic and finding the english (unless you want to... Read more

Published 14 months ago by Matt Chessen

5.0 out of 5 stars An essential tool
This dictionary was written by linguists and is an essential tool for anyone who wants to become proficient in the Iraqi dialect of Arabic. Read more

Published 18 months ago by Al-Shayib

4.0 out of 5 stars good tool for learners
As a university graduate in Arabic and as a teacher of Arabic I can say that this dictionary is a great help for learners of Iraqi dialect. Read more

Published 19 months ago by A. Q. Bartr�s

3.0 out of 5 stars How to use the Arabic-English part?
The fact that this dictionary is in romanized Arabic is a positive aspect for beginning learners of the language. Read more

Published on March 19, 2007 by the Stone Lion

5.0 out of 5 stars Dialect
This is a very useable resource. From a pragmatic perspective, if it works, don't fix it. I agree it is difficult to deal with romanized script at first, but I'm leaning it... Read more

Published on September 18, 2005 by another believer

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good dictionary of DIALECT
As much as I like to see words in the orginal script, you are unfortunately at a loss if you do not already know the basics of the dialect when you see the words written in Arabic... Read more

Published on April 24, 2005 by Robert K. Snyder

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent - for linguists, too.
Spoken Iraqi dialect is never written. Written Arabic is actually a different language, a scholastic artifact. Read more

Published on April 29, 2004

2.0 out of 5 stars Arabic script please!
When using this dictionary to assist me in translating some Iraqi Arabic to English I found it harder to use because it is romanized, than if they had used the Arabic script... Read more

Published on December 11, 2003 by imruthers

3.0 out of 5 stars For those who plan to be illiterate, buy this dictionary.
As a linguistics student who is also a serious student of Arabic, I disliked the lack of Arabic script. Read more

Published on March 16, 2003

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