Welcome to the landing page for the desktop version of Edward William Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon.

  • Documentation is here.

  • Install binaries for Windows and OSX users are here.

  • Simple build instructions for *nix users are here.

  • Issue tracker is here.

What is it?

A presentation of Lane's Lexicon based on the digitization work of the Perseus Digital Library. It is a standalone desktop application, not a front-end to the Perseus website.

While PDFs of the original text are freely available on the internet, this software offers:

  • The ability to search for Arabic and non-Arabic text, view and export the results
  • Easy navigation of the Lexicon via a tree of letters, roots and headwords
  • Print or create PDFs of individual entries
  • Copy and paste entries into your own documents
  • Extensive customization including setting your preferred Arabic font

The screenshot below will give you an idea of what it offers. If you're interested, follow one of the above links. There's a contact page in the documentation if you want to get in touch. Comments and questions are always welcome.

Sample

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Project

This repository is one of four that make up the entire project:

  • XML - Contains the orginal XML from the Perseus project with amendments
  • Parser - Some Perl scripts to parse the XML and load it into the SQLite database that drives the GUI application
  • Documentation

The documentation build instructions contains a more detailed description.