Arabic-English Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage (Handbook of Oriental Studies, 85) (English and Arabic Edition) Bilingual Edition

The book is excellently printed. A unique feature of this dictionary is that the root Arabic letters of each verb entry in the dictionary are printed separately with a slash (/) between each letter, and followed by the English transliteration of the root verb, again with letters separated by a slash. The indexing at the top of the page also separates the letters. An experience reader of Arabic may think this excessively pedantic, but the novice reader of Arabic will appreciate it, as it is much easier to look up a word this way. Many thanks to Mr. Badawi for this.This dictionary of Qur'anic usage is not a substitute for a generic Arabic-English dictionary. So the beginning reader of the Qur'an will need a general purpose Arabic-English dictionary as well, like the Hans Wehr dictionary, also available at Amazon in paperback (and in very small font).

very useful Arabic dictionary.

A PARADIGM OF PERFECTION“… a new scholarly dictionary of the vocabulary of the Qur’an, with complete translation of all words, in which the abundant information in the commentary literature [is] taken into account. … The information in this dictionary is presented by root, as in most dictionaries, but an interesting feature is that at the beginning of each lemma the entire semantic range of the root is given, together with a frequency count of each form belonging to the root. … For each individual lexical unit, the meanings in different contexts are carefully distinguished. Thus, for an important notion like kitāb, no less than fourteen different meanings are given, from ‘written document’ to ‘prescribed punishment’, each of which is illustrated with a quotation from the text, with full translation. … This means that the dictionary will serve as a very useful reference tool, not only for the specialist, but also for beginning readers, who inevitably need as much support as they can get in their first efforts to understand the text.” Foreword.“The dictionary follows the Arabic root system and is composed of 28 sections, each of which is devoted to one letter of the Arabic alphabet, …” Introduction.A work of impeccable scholarship; beautiful in its clarity and elegance of presentation: a splendid achievement

You can read a lot of this book on google books. It is good, but a lot of the information it contains is already available online for FREE, e.g. Lane's Lexicon, other Classical Arabic dictionaries, Quran concordance, grammar information etc. Its unique point is that it specifically provides Quranic usage of words/terms, which can sometimes be insightful.