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Wiktionary – Arabic Wiki Dictionary – ويكاموس

Posted by Mourad Diouri | مراد الديوري On April - 28 - 2008 ADD COMMENTS

English Wiktionary                               Arabic Wiktionary

What is Wiktionary?

ويكاموس (دمج كلمتي ويكي وقاموس) أحد مشاريع مؤسسة ويكيميديا يهدف إلى إيجاد قاموس حر بلغة الويكي لكل اللغات.

Wiktionary is a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary.

Designed as the lexical companion to Wikipedia, the encyclopaedia project, Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. We aim to include not only the definition of a word, but also enough information to really understand it. Thus etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations are included.

Wiktionary is a wiki, which means that you can edit it, and all the content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Before you contribute, you may wish to read through some of our Help pages, and bear in mind that we do things quite differently from other wikis. In particular we have strict layout conventions and inclusion criteria.

Learning/Pedagogical Applications

Search for unfamiliar words

  • Use the tool
  • Search for examples of use of certain words e.g.
  • Contribute with an article/dictionary defenition of an unknown or un-available Arabic word.

Screenshot of the Arabic Wiktionary

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