A to Z of Arabic-English-Arabic Translation

Contents
Introduction 11
List of abbreviations and symbols 14
Abbreviations / acronyms 15
Above / over 17
Adverbs 18
Advise / advice 25
Affect / effect 25
After / afterwards 26
Agreement 27
All (of ) / each / every 41
Allow / permit / let 45
Already / just / yet 46
Although / though / albeit 49
Among / between 51
Amount / number 52
An / anna / in / inna 53
Anymore / no more / no longer / any longer 58
Appeal / appal 60
Appreciable / appreciative 61
Approval / disapproval 61
Arab / Arabic / Arabian 67
As / because / since / for 68
As for 71
As if / as though 72
As / like 73
As long as 74
As much as 74
As soon as 75
As well as 76
Auxiliary verbs 77
Aw / am 82
Beach / shore / coast / seaside 84
To become 85
Before / in front of / opposite / facing / across 86
Below / beneath / underneath / under 87
Beside / besides 88
Big / large / large 89
Border / frontier / boundary 90
Both 91
Bring / take 93
By / with 94
Canal / Channel 95
Can / may / might 96
Classic / classical / classics / classicist / classicism 103
Close / shut 105
Common / joint 105
Comparative / superlative 106
The conditional 113
Confident / confidential / confidant 118
Conscious / consciousness / conscience / conscientious 118
Contemptible / contemptuous 119
Continual / continuous / continuation / continuance / continuity 120
Conversation / conversant 121
Correlative particles and conjuncts 122
Credible / creditable 127
Criticism / critic / critique / critical 127
Cry / shout / weep / sob 128
Dare / dare say 131
Definite / definitive 132
Depend / dependent / dependant 132
Disinterested / uninterested 133
Distinct / distinctive 134
Disused / misuse / abuse 134
During / for / in / since 135
Each other / one another 138
Each / every 139
Eatable / edible 140
Economic / economical 140
Effective / efficient / efficacious 141
Either / neither 241
Emigrate / immigrate / migrate 144
Ensure / insure / assure 146
Even / even if / even though / even so 147
Ever / never 148
Everyone / every one 150
Exclamations 150
Exception 152
Fairly / quite / rather / pretty 154
Few / Little / Fewer / less / (lesser) 155
Flammable, inflammable 157
The future 158
Genial / genius / genuine / ingenious / ingenuous 160
Happen / occur / take place 161
Hal / a 162
Hardly / barely / scarcely / sooner 163
High / tall 165
Hire / rent / let / lease / charter 166
Historic / historical 167
Holiday / holidays / vacation / furlough / leave 168
Human / humane 170
Hyphens 170
If / whether 173
In case / in spite of 174
Incredible / incredulous 175
Industrial / industrious 176
Information 176
Interfere / interrupt / intervene 177
Intolerable / intolerant 178
Invaluable / valueless 178
Judicial / judicious / judiciary / judicature 180
Just / just now 181
Keep on … 182
Lawyer / solicitor / barrister 183
Let’s … 183
Make / do / let 184
Marine / maritime / nautical / naval 185
Maybe / may be 186
Moral / morale 187
More / most / mostly 188
Much / Many 188
Nonetheless / notwithstanding 190
Not long before … 190
Not only / just … but also 192
Northeast / southeast / … 193
Not to mention … 194
Number / figure / digit 194
Obligation 197
The passive 200
The past 204
Prefixes 208
The present 214
Presently / at present 216
Price / prize 216
Principal / principle 217
Punctuation 218 Relative pronouns 222
Rise / raise 226
Say / tell 227
Self 227
Sensible / sensitive 229
Shade / shadow 230
Some / any 231
Sometime / sometimes 233
Still 234
Subjunctive 235
Suffixes 236
Terms of address 238
There is / are … 241
Time 245
Too 249
Transliteration and transcription 252
Until / till / by 266
Wa and fa 268
When / if 269
Whether (it be) … or 269
While / whereas 270
Will / shall 271
Wish 272
Appendix I: tenses: overview 277
Appendix II: modality: overview 279
English index 283
Arabic index 287