Word view

This page explains how to use the word view of the Egyptian Arabic Dictionary. You can get to this view by clicking on a word in one of the other views.

Buttons

At the top left of the display is a or button and either a or button .

Arabic words are displayed both in arabic writing and in european letters. There are two options for displaying words in european letters- transliterated and pronounced. You can click on and to switch between the two. For more information about the differences between the two systems and an introduction to arabic writing, see Arabic Writing.

You can hide the arabic writing by clicking the button, and show it using the button.

At the top right is a or flag that can switch the user interface between English and Arabic , and a button which displays the menu .

Word details

This block displays full details for the word. If available, you can click on the button to see all moods and cases of this verb, and the button to see example sentences that use this word.

Notes

This clarifies the meaning of the word.

Language

This is the language of the word.

Element

This indicates the function of a word in a sentence, for example Noun or Verb. See grammar for more information about this.

Thesaurus

This specifies the thesaurus category that this word belongs to. You can click on the thesaurus category to see a list of similar or related words.

Usage

The usage indicates how frequently the word is used: the options are

BNC rank

This indicates how frequently the word is used in english. The rank for arabic is not currently available, as there is no corpus of written egyptian arabic available for analysis.

Forms

Many words have more than one grammatical form- for example, singular and plural. This section gives a list of all forms. If there is a button next to a form, you can click on it to hear somebody saying the word.

Meanings

This section lists the meanings of this word in the other language. You can click on a word to switch to see full details for that word.

Similar words

This section lists words that are spelt almost the same as this word. You can click on a word to switch to see full details for that word.