Edward William Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (Dictionary)
Regarded as the best Arabic-English lexicon in the world, and now available FREE
Online in PDF below or as TEXT zip file here (10MB
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Including OCR, making the English word-searchable (NB: not 100% accurate)
Contents: All 8 volumes, each with its own folder, total 3162 pages. One large word-searchable file for each volume. Arrangement by root, exhaustive meanings including derivatives, comments on grammar, examples of usage in Al Quran/Koran & other sources.
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