Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry وال
أل
1 وَأَلَ
: see آلَ, in art. اول, in two places.
أَوَّلُ First, and former; preceding all others, and preceding another. See art. أول
أَوَائِلُ السُّوَرِ The first parts, or beginnings, of the chapters of the Kur-án.
جَآءَ فِى أَوَائِلِ القَوْمِ He came among the first comers of the people. (Msb.)
And الأَوَائِلُ The people of former ages; as also الأَوَّلُونَ.
لَقِيتُهُ عَامًا أَوَّلَ meansI met him [in a former year.] before this year, though by several years. (Alee El-Kári, in his Expos. of the K, from Seer; cited in the margin of a copy of the K; art. اول.) See عَامٌ.
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.
