Mu'jam an-Nafaes al-Kabir - 2 volumes, 2200 pages

This is a modern dictionary of the Arabic language, which aims to be as complete and accurate as possible, and which complements and clarifies existing dictionaries in many aspects. Here are some of the features of "al-Nafais al-Kabir" dictionary:

Facing the needs and requirements of the modern age with appropriate words and forms;

adopting generative, Arabised, and extraneous words that are common among people, and admitting the active, the easy, and the familiar vocabulary and formulas;

disposing of vague explanations, and adopting clear, concise and accurate one;

adhering to accuracy, tight tabs, and accessibility; referencing the source of every strange meaning next to it, so that the one who knows the language can easily refer to it;

considering the common and usual language;

adopting what has been approved by the linguistic academies of modern civilized words, new scientific terms, and precise and clear definitions;

strengthening of words with Qur’anic Verses, prophetic Ahadiths, common proverbs, and transmitted eloquent structures, both poetry and prose;

putting pictures of animals, plants and machines on special drawings; ensuring that the text is precisely controlled, whether it is a lexical material, Qur’anic Verses, prophetic Ahadiths, slogans, proverbs, or otherwise;

ensuring that misconceptions, contained in some Arabic dictionaries, are corrected, either by modification, clarification, or deletion;

Thus, this book fills the intellectuals’ need for an easy-to-use dictionary, abundant in material, that combines the living inherited words and the correct contemporary ones.