Steep, but brilliant
An absolute must for the Arabic student. As long as you know how to spell the word, you'll find no problems establishing it's root and definition. Updates with plurals/imperfect/gender would really make this application a winner.
Translates Only from Arabic to English
When I purchased this, I didn't realize that "Arabic-English" meant "from Arabic to English" and only "from Arabic to English." I also foolishly believed the word "bilingual" implied "bidirectional" translations. Whoops. Aside from the bit of confusion and disappointment I experienced when I first purchased it, this is a great app. Although considering it only works in one direction I think it is overpriced by about $10. I'm hoping that a future update will include English to Arabic translations as well, but I have a feeling that's pretty unlikely.
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Outstanding
This is a revision to an earlier review I wrote and to raise my rating to 5 star. I have used this program for about 6 months now on a daily basis. I have used other electronic Arabic-English dictionaries in the past and this is hands-down the best. Being able to parse the morphology is even handier than I expected when I bought it. This is just an outstanding piece of work and resets the standard. I have notified the developer of a couple of root errors that I found which they gratefully accepted and corrected.
If they would just add an English > Arabic function it would move up into the luxury class.
If they would just add an English > Arabic function it would move up into the luxury class.
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Outstanding Tool
Pricey, yes. But this tool has proven invaluable to me as Arabic beginner in learning the complexities of the alphabet in conjunction with my beginner language learning courses. I must say a weakness is the small size of the fonts requiring and old man like myself magnification glasses for usage.
Please note: this is not a translator. It will not provide English translations of multi-word passages.
Overall, very good.
Please note: this is not a translator. It will not provide English translations of multi-word passages.
Overall, very good.
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Decet morphological analyzer for Arabic words
This is more than a dictionary, it is like a morphological guide to Arabic words, breaking down the prefixes and suffixes and roots of what you give it.
The only oddity is that some 3 letter words give very strange roots that don't seem to be right, like ุจูุบ giving a root of ุจูุฑ. Aside from this, the program itself is excellent and highly recommended.
The only oddity is that some 3 letter words give very strange roots that don't seem to be right, like ุจูุบ giving a root of ุจูุฑ. Aside from this, the program itself is excellent and highly recommended.
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