Modern Military Dictionary: English-Arabic/Arabic-English (English and Arabic Edition) - Softcover

Kayyali, Maher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0781802431 ISBN 13: 9780781802437

Publisher: Hippocrene Books, 1994

Synopsis

Every field of human activity develops its own terms and jargon, and the military field is no exception. This timely and necessary dictionary includes fundamental military terms, contemporary political and technological terms and jargon, military technique terms for the specialist, as well as words in allied subjects such as economics, law, statistics and sociology. The following are among the comprehensive number of military terms found in this dictionary: air reconnaissance, cluster bomb, estimated time of arrival, firing pin, intercontinental ballistic missile, logbook, metagon, orbital velocity, rate of fire, squadron, target allocation, verification fire, zero hour. In giving the equivalent Arabic terms, reference has been accorded to those terms agreed by the Arabic Academic Centres in Cairo, Amman, Damascus, Baghdad and Rabbat, and to the widely accepted terms that have been coined by contemporary specialists and linguists.

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From the Back Cover:

Every field of human activity develops its own terms and jargon, and the military field is no exception. This timely and necessary dictionary includes fundamental military terms, contemporary political and technological terms and jargon, military technique terms for the specialist, as well as words in allied subjects such as economics, law, statistics and sociology.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Arabic

About this edition

• Publisher: Hippocrene Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0781802431
• ISBN 13: 9780781802437
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 250