A Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic: Moroccan-English/English-Moroccan (Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics) Review

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A Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic: Moroccan-English/English-Moroccan (Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics) ReviewThe review by Basmah is not very helpful: evidently, this dictionary is not a good choice if you're looking for a phrasebook!
As far as I know - please correct me if I'm wrong - this is pretty much the *only* serious dictionary currently available for students of Moroccan Arabic (MA). [Two MA-French dictionaries based on the work of Colin were published in the 90s, but these are very expensive multivolume works.]
I bought this dictionary recently, as a beginning student of MA. I'd previously seen a review posted by MA specialist Mary Shapiro on the Linguists List (google it): so I was aware that this dictionary has a lot of deficiencies. It was created in the 1960s, and hasn't been revised since. It's basically two different dictionaries bound together, not an integrated project, and there are slight differences in the transcription system between the MA-E and E-MA parts; what's more, the transcription system for the E-MA part is *not* described (for that you have to buy Harrell's "Short Reference Grammar"). The alphabetization criteria are tedious and unhelpful. The word lists differ considerably between the two parts, and most importantly there are LOTS of gaps in coverage... for example, no E-MA entry for "talkative"; no MA-E entry from "Germany"; no mention of the very common "baraka llahu fik" ("many thanks") in the MA-E section under either "baraka" or "llah".
As I say, it seems to be the best available at present, and pretty much an essential purchase for the student of MA... we can only hope that some serious competition will eventually emerge, so that Georgetown University Press are obliged to take this a bit more seriously, instead of charging us $38 for a straight reprint from 40 years ago. It'd be wonderful to see a single-volume MA-F/F-MA dictionary based on the massive Colin dictionaries: indeed, one might even dream that such a dictionary might form part of a wider effort to create normalized orthographies for MA in both the Arabic and Latin scripts. Still: as language students, ours is not to reason why...A Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic: Moroccan-English/English-Moroccan (Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics) OverviewThis classic volume presents the core vocabulary of everyday life in Morocco - from the kitchen to the mosque, from the hardware store to the natural world of plants and animals. It contains myriad examples of usage, including formulaic phrases and idiomatic expressions. Understandable throughout the nation, it is based primarily on the standard dialect of Moroccans from the cities of Fez, Rabat, and Casablanca. All Arabic citations are in an English transcription, making it invaluable to English-speaking non-Arabists, travelers, and tourists - as well as being an important resource tool for students and scholars in the Arabic language-learning field.

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