ESSENTIAL DICTIONARIES FOR COURT
INTERPRETERS
DICTIONARIES FOR INTERPRETERS OF ALL LANGUAGES:
1. One of the following comprehensive English monolingual dictionaries:
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4
th
Edition
Format: Hardcover, 4
th
ed., 2116pp.
ISBN: 035825172
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date: September 2000
Edition Desc: 4
th
Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary
Format: Hardcover, 3
rd
ed., 2256pp.
ISBN: 0375425667
Publisher: Random House Information Group
Pub. Date: September 2001
Edition Desc: 2
nd
2. Black’s Law Dictionary (American and English Jurisprudence)
Format: Textbook Hardcover, 7
th
ed., 1776pp.
ISBN: 0314228640
Publisher: West Group
Pub. Date: August 1999
3. At least one each of the following kinds of dictionaries for each language in
which an interpreter works:
a. A comprehensive monolingual dictionary in each of the other languages
b. A bilingual dictionary, English-Foreign Language and Foreign Language-
English
c. A standard legal dictionary in each of the other languages
d. A bilingual English-Foreign Language, Foreign Language-English legal
dictionary
SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR “ESSENTIAL” DICTIONARIES FOR
LANGUAGES OTHER THATN ENGLISH:
ARABIC
A comprehensive monolingual dictionary
At least one comprehensive general bilingual dictionary:
Al Mawrid (English-Arabic/Arabic-English dictionary)
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