Look up any Arabic word in three of the great Arabic dictionaries at once: Lisan al-Arab, al-Qamus al-Muhit and al-Mu'jam al-Wasit.
21,724 words and roots, 25,926 entries across the three dictionaries
Arabic Word Meanings is a free service from the Assaqi app for searching three foundational Arabic dictionaries together: Lisan al-Arab by Ibn Manzur, al-Qamus al-Muhit by al-Fayruzabadi, and al-Mu'jam al-Wasit by the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo.
Type the word as it appears — with or without diacritics, with any form of hamza — or type its root. The search covers words and roots at once and shows each dictionary's explanation on a single page, together with words from the same root. Definitions are given in the original Arabic.
In the Assaqi app the same dictionaries work offline after a one-time download, and you can open the meaning of any word straight from the Holy Quran and Mafatih al-Jinan.
Academy of the Arabic Language, Cairo
A modern dictionary by the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo, arranged alphabetically by root in clear, concise Arabic, with contemporary words and terms alongside the classical language — the easiest of the three for today's readers.
6,763 entries
al-Fayruzabadi (d. 817 AH)
Al-Fayruzabadi's famously concise yet rich dictionary — so influential that its title, qamus, became the everyday Arabic word for “dictionary”. It fixes each word's vocalisation and lists its senses tersely.
9,811 entries
Ibn Manzur (d. 711 AH)
The largest and best-known Arabic dictionary. Ibn Manzur merged five major earlier lexicons into it, with evidence from the Quran, hadith, poetry and the philologists — the most exhaustive reference.
9,352 entries
Lisan al-Arab is the most extensive: it explores every sense of a root with evidence from the Quran, hadith and poetry. Al-Qamus al-Muhit is the most concise, fixing the vocalisation and listing the meanings tersely. Al-Mu'jam al-Wasit is the most modern and easiest to read and includes contemporary vocabulary — which is why we show al-Wasit first, then al-Muhit, then Lisan al-Arab.
Type the word as it appears (e.g. يستغفرون، مكتوب) or its root (e.g. غفر، كتب), with or without diacritics. The search treats all forms of hamza, taa marbuta and alif maqsura alike, and tries the likely roots of derived words.
Yes — in the Assaqi app for Android the three dictionaries are downloaded once (about 27 MB) and then work without a connection. You can also open the meaning of any word directly from the Holy Quran or Mafatih al-Jinan.
