مقدمة .. القاموس الحديث the recent dictionary انكليزي - عربي

Introduction .. The Modern Dictionary THE RECENT DICTIONARY English - Arabic

Introduction

We notice the intellectuals' dedication to translation in this era of our current age. When we examine our ancient literary and scientific heritage, we find it rich and superior, rivaling the richest world literature. However, an era of decline dominated our Arab society for a long time, so our thinkers and writers lived on the margins of life. Now the sun of creativity is rising again.

In our hope of contributing to this sublime renaissance, we have taken upon ourselves a pledge to serve the rising generation of our nation's sons, and we will spare no effort in working to advance it. This dictionary fulfilled one of our great hopes and was the fruit of great effort and sincere struggle and the first fruit of its production. Its advantage is that it is an attempt in which we worked hard to avoid the errors that we noticed in other dictionaries, and to add what was not mentioned at all, whether in dictionaries printed in the Arab East or in Western countries. This dictionary contains more than seventy thousand words and more, carefully and meticulously selected. In particular, we have given a large share to scientific and technical words, and we have added to it international terms that we did not find before printing the dictionary. So that it may fulfill what the pioneers of science and knowledge seek in it.

Then we worked on decorating it with a large number of pictures exceeding three thousand pictures that accurately express the words for which they were created, such as animals that exist in specific parts of the world. There are also geometric shapes and various machines used in various facilities such as laboratory tools and mechanical machines.

In almost every letter there is a page that includes a group of pictures showing many shapes of one type, such as the page of carpets, for example - Carpets - in the letter - C - and the page of horses - Horses - in the letter - H -.

This dictionary is distinguished from others in the way of pronouncing words, by placing a number for each pronunciation of the syllable of each word.

Pronunciation in the Frankish languages, including English, depends on the vowel letters - Vowel letters -: which are like the vowels in the Arabic language.

We will mention below each vowel letter accompanied by its verbal terms and compelling examples.

Letter A

1 - It is pronounced like the extended alif - أ - and its pronunciation is symbolized by the number 44 as in the following words:
dark, fast, father, fast, rasp

2 - It is pronounced with the weight of the ya as in the word - سايف - without closing the ya and its pronunciation is symbolized by the number - 21 - as in the following words:
date, fate, haste, mane, place

3 - It is pronounced with the weight of the regular alif in the Arabic language and its pronunciation is symbolized by the number - 3 - as in the following words:
bag, dash, fact, jack, ram

Letter E

1 - It is pronounced between the kasra and the fatha and its pronunciation is symbolized by the number (2) as in the following words:
let, men, fellow, pen, set

2 - It is pronounced with the weight of the word (ريم), and its pronunciation is symbolized by the number "11" as in the following words:
femur, key, lenient, metre, petite

- It is also pronounced if it is followed by With the letter (a) or another letter (e), as in the following words:
bear, bean, feel, meat, keen

3 - It is pronounced in the form (بيت) without a sukoon on the letter ya and is symbolized by the number (99) as in the following words:
desert, deter, herd, kersey, person

4 - If the words are three-letter words with the letter (e) in the middle and ending with the letter wr, the letter (e) is pronounced in the form (u) and is symbolized by the number (18) as in the following words:
dew, few, knew, new

Letter I

1 - It is pronounced as it is in the alphabet in the form (اي) and is symbolized by the numbers (41) as in the following words:
bite, dine, kite, fight, drive

2 - It is pronounced like a kasra in the Arabic language and is symbolized by the number (1) as in the following words:
sit, give, finish, still, permit

3 - It is sometimes pronounced as mentioned in rule (3) in The letter (e) is on the weight of the word (house) without the sukoon of the yaa and is symbolized by the number (99), as in the following words:
dirt, firm, girl, sir, stir

Letter 0

1 - It is pronounced on the weight of the damma in the Arabic language and is symbolized by the number (5) as in the following words:
dog, fog, long, pot, top

2 - It is sometimes pronounced on the weight of the Arabic word (dom) and is symbolized by the number “55” as in the following words:
door, most, more, short

3 - It is also pronounced if it is followed by the letter (a) or if the four-letter word ends with the letter (e), as follows:

board, coat, moan, foam, road
bore, drove, home, joke, rode

4 - If the letter (o) is followed by another letter (o), they are then pronounced on the weight of the word (dawr), plural of dar, usually and are symbolized by the number (77) as in the following words :
boot, foot, root, tooth

Letter U

1 - It is pronounced like a fatha in Arabic and is symbolized by the number (8) as in the following words:
burry, but, cup, dump, but

2 - If a quadrilateral or sometimes quintiliteral word ends with the letter (e), the letter (u) is pronounced as it is in the alphabet and is symbolized by the number “18” as in the following words:
cure, duke, muse, pure,

3 - It is pronounced according to the weight of the base (3) of the letter (e) and is symbolized by the number (99) as in the following words:

hurt, nurse, purse, turn

4 - It is pronounced according to the weight of the word (dawr) (plural of dar), and is symbolized by the number (99) as in the following words:

rule, suit, sure, true

It is worth mentioning in these rules that they are not fixed and apply to all the words referred to, but they are almost basic and can be measured in most cases, and the main purpose of all these explanations is to clarify the meaning of the numbers that were assigned to the pronunciation, so after reading these rules it is possible - with all ease and simplicity - to know what the numbers refer to in this introduction.

Finally, we see it necessary for us to avoid - as much as possible - Arabic words that have become strange to our era in order to facilitate the student of the English language, so we have chosen easy and familiar meanings. This is despite the fact that there are some words in the English language that become closer to understanding when explained with colloquial Arabic words, and we have put such words in brackets to indicate that they are colloquial words.

Noun and Verb:

Some words in the English language share a noun and a verb, or an adjective and a verb, so we use a line like this (-) before the verb, as you see in the word (fire) for example, if you find it like this:
Heat, fire, fire, anger, intensity, - ignite, ignite, (19) fire, shoot, expel, isolate.

And compare this to every word of this type that shares a verb with a noun or adjective or both together sometimes.