The Arabist Edward Lane

No Arabist library, for an English speaker, is complete without Edward Lane’s Arabic-English Lexicon, despite the fact it was never finished. There are several reprints out there, but now the original is available to read online. If you want to look up a word, go to http://www.tyndalearchive.com/TABS/Lane/. The text is in pdf but can be searched by root, although the server is somewhat slow to respond.

For an interesting article on the travels of Edward Lane, check out the Saudi Aramco World article.