قاموس لين

Lane's Arabic–English Lexicon

The complete text of Edward William Lane's Arabic–English Lexicon (1863–1893).

laneslexicon.com is paywalled. Whether by well-meaning intentions or by sheer apathy, it places a toll on a public-domain work that one man spent a lifetime building. This site exists in response to that.

Permanently free, God-Willing.
May we keep from burning down the gardens our fathers grew.

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About this project

Lane's Lexicon is the most comprehensive classical Arabic dictionary in any European language. It has been out of print for over a century and firmly in the public domain. This site presents the full text in a clean, readable format — with proper Arabic typography, resolved cross-references, and a fast search (coming soon).

Source text from the laneslexicon/lexicon_xml project (CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Perseus Digital Library).

A project by SAYA · Contributor: Saad Khan