Works of Arabic Dictionaries
- Kitāb al-ʿAin of al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad
- The Ṣiḥāḥ of al-Jawharī
- The Muḥkam of Ibn Sīda
- The Mufradāt of Al-Rāghib al-Isfahānī
- Asās al-Balāgha of al-Zamakhshari
- Lisān al-ʿArab of Ibn Manẓūr
- Al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ of Firuzabadi
- Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī’s Tāj al-ʿArūs
- Al-Mawrid of Rohi and Munir Baalbaki
- The Arabic-English Lexicon of W. E. Lane
| Kitab al-Ayn كتاب العين) | Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi | 8th century | Kitab al-Ayn was the first dictionary for the Arabic language. | |
| Kitab al-Jim (Arabic: كتاب الجيم) a.k.a. Kitab al-Lughat or Kitab al-Huruf | Abu Amr al-Shaybani | 8-9th century | The only copy is in the El Escorial Library.[2] | |
| Al-Jamhara al-Lugha: جمهرة اللغة) a.k.a. Al-Jamhara fi al-Lugha (The all-embracing in language) | Ibn Duraid | 9-10th century | The dictionary was inspired in part by the earlier dictionary Kitab al-Ayn of al-Farahidi. | |
| Tahdhib al-Lugha: تهذيب اللغة) | Abu Manshur al-Azhari al-Harawi | 10th century | The dictionary is important as a source of the Lisan al-Arab. | |
| Al-Muhit fi al-Lugha: المحيط في اللغة) | Al-Sahib ibn Abbad | 10th century | ||
| Taj al-Lugha wa Sihah al-Arabiyya (Arabic: تاج اللغة وصحاح العربية) shorter title: Taj al-Lugha or al-Sihah | Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari (Arabic: | 10-11th century | It contains about 40,000 dictionary entries.[7] | |
| Al-Muhkam wa al-Muhit al-A’zam | Ibn Sidah | 11th century | The author was a blind man. | |
| Lisan al-Arab | Ibn Manzur | The dictionary was completed in 1290. | It contains about 80,000 dictionary entries. | |
| Al-Qamus al-Muhit wa al-Qabus al-Wasit | Al-Firuzabadi | The dictionary was completed in 1410. | It contains about 60,000 dictionary entries. | The dictionary served as the basis of later European dictionaries of Arabic. |
| Taj al-Arus Min Jawahir al-Qamus | Al-Murtada al-Zabidi | The dictionary was completed in 1774. | It contains about 120,000 dictionary entries. | |
| Muhit al-Muhit | Butrus al-Bustani | The dictionary was completed in 1870. | The author had dedicated the work to the Sultan Abdulaziz. The sultan awarded him with a higher medal and 250 golden liras. | |
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