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Lexicon of the Modern Arabic Language

book by Ahmed Mukhtar Omar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ20423731 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dictionary of the Contemporary Arabic Language (Arabic: معجم اللغة العربية المعاصرة mu‘jam al-lughah al-‘arabīyah al-mu‘āṣirah) is a 2008 dictionary aiming to cover modern Arabic. It was authored by Ahmed Mukhtar Omar.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lexicon of the Modern Arabic Language” is book by Ahmed Mukhtar Omar. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lexicon, Modern and Arabic, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lexicon, Modern and Arabic is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “book by Ahmed Mukhtar Omar” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20423731. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Lexicon of the Modern Arabic Language”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lexicon of the Modern Arabic Language primary sources, Lexicon of the Modern Arabic Language archive and Lexicon research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Lexicon of the Modern Arabic Language”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Lexicon of the Modern Arabic Language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.