The Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic

A Pan-Arab etymological dictionary and historical lexicon of the Arabic language as it has developed over the last two millennia. The work details the origins of every word in its corpus and record the transformations in each word’s meaning, in addition to the location of its first appearance. To achieve this, the Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic relied on an extensive body of primary materials in the Arabic language, drawn from centuries of the Arabic canon.