Explains words and expressions from the present-day vocabulary of Arabic.

Arabic collection. "Preface to the Student edition. This edition is intended to meet the demand of students & scholars for a compact, well-bound, economically priced version of A DICTIONARY OF MODERN WRITTEN ARABIC. It contains all the entries of the larger, hard-bound, 4th edition."--Page [v]. "A compact version of the internationally recognized fourth edition"--Cover. "Considerably enlarged and amended by the author."