Best Available Lane’s Lexicon and Hans Wehr Mobile Apps [Non-PDF]
June 29, 2022 § 3 Comments
You can find two free mobile apps at this link, one for Lane’s Lexicon and the other Hans Wehr, the distinguishing factor being that the results are not shown as scanned PDFs that are difficult to read on a mobile, here the actual text is searchable and way more readable.
The font size of the results can be adjusted to make it easier on the eye along with a few other settings:
Sample results:
By clicking on the blue box link shown at the top of the image above, instances where the word or its root occur in the Quraan are listed:
Clicking on one of the Quranic links should detect a Quraan app if you have one installed on your phone and open the listed aayah in it:
Seems like it is only available on Android.
Many thanks to the developer, Gibreel Abdullah, may Allah reward him with good.
Further resources here.
Searcheable PDF of the Hans Wehr Dictionary
January 1, 2016 § Leave a comment
Important Update as of July 2022—New Resource for Mobile users: Best Available Lane’s Lexicon and Hans Wehr Mobile Apps [Non-PDF]. Truly awesome resource on your mobile, easily searchable since it’s not a PDF which you have to zoom in and out of like a maniac, you can find it here.
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Here is a useful, searchable PDF file of the Hans Wehr Dictionary, you can search both the Arabic and the English, downloadable for offline use, page numbers corresponding to the print version are highlighted in turquoise.
And see here for an even more impressive resource.
Further resources here.
See here for a Firefox and Chrome add-on that allows you to enlarge Arabic text on websites and choose from a variety of Arabic fonts you’d like to see sites in.
Excellent Resource: Offline Hans Wehr Arabic-English Dictionary for Your Android Smartphone
February 11, 2014 § 1 Comment
For those of you who need access to the Hans Wehr dictionary on your Android smartphones this is a marvellous resource, it works without internet connection once you’ve downloaded and installed the program and file.
May Allaah reward the brother who produced it with good.
You can download it from the Google Play Store here.
Update: Hans Wehr and Lane’s Lexicon Dictionary Search Can Be Downloaded So You Can Work Offline
February 29, 2012 § 7 Comments
Those of you who may need to use the dictionary search facility mentioned in the previous post whilst offline will be pleased to know that you can download the whole thing and do precisely that. The file is about 600MB, once you’ve downloaded it, unzip it, and then from your browser, click: Open File, and locate the file called: “index” in the directory that you downloaded. It should then open up and you can work offline, walhamdulillaah.
Here is the link to download the whole thing: http://ejtaal.net/aa/readme.html#download-for-offline-use.
Very Useful Resource: Search Hans-Wehr and Lane’s Lexicon at the Same Time
February 29, 2012 § 5 Comments
Here’s a truly remarkable resource for those who regularly need to use Arabic-English dictionaries. On this page you can search both Hans-Wehr’s dictionary and Lane’s Lexicon at the same time. What is most useful is the fact that you can type in the base root of the word you’re looking for in Arabic and it will show you the word in Hans-Wehr first and if you scroll down it will then show you where the same word occurs in Lane’s Lexicon.
Check it out:
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