Good Resource: Search Hans-Wehr Dictionary & Lane’s Lexicon at the Same Time

AsSalam Alaikum,

Search Online :

Alhamdulillaah, Here  is very important resource for searching for  a word  in Hans-Wehr Dictionary (4th Edition) & Lane’s Lexicon online.

It is a HTML/JavaScript app for both desktop and mobile use that allows looking up Arabic roots in Hans Wehr, Lane’s Lexicon and other books simultaneously. Additionally, you may download the entire website to your hard disk or smart phone’s sd card, for fast offline usage. Read below for more information on downloading and installing it.

You can search in both “Arabic” and “English” words. And it is customized to serach on mobile /smartphone as well.

For Searching: http://ejtaal.net/m/aa/#HW=489,LL=4_283,LS=2,HA=380

Download for offline use :

You can now download the entire website and install it for instance on your phone’s SD card or your desktop PC for super fast access. Download link:

Main download site @ archive.org: Mawrid_Reader_v1.0.zip

The size is about 2.9 GB. The zip file contains two folders, one named “aa” and one “mr” which you should place somewhere on your PC’s drive or on your phone’s SD card. For desktops you should then be able to do “File->Open” and select the index.html file within the “aa” or “mr” folder for root based or alphabetical dictionaries respectively. On smart phones & tablets there are 2 ways you could try to get it installed: 1) Install the free Opera browser (the full one, not the Mini) to go the following url: file://localhost/sdcard, then locate the “aa” or “mr” folder and click on index.html or 2) Install the free Astro file manager and navigate to the aa or mr folder that you’ve extracted from the zip file onto the sdcard. Tap the index.html file and it will either open in your default browser or you can choose any of the installed browser to open the file. Once in your browser you can bookmark it for quick access. I’ve found the Dolpin browser to have the best performance, but the Chrome or Firefox browsers should work as well.

Visit for More Information : http://ejtaal.net/aa/readme.html#download-for-offline-use