title: Moroccan Arabic - English Lexical Database
Creators: name: Maamouri, Mohamed
name: Graff, David
Publisher: name: Linguistic Data Consortium
Year: 2023

description: <h3>Introduction</h3>
<p>Moroccan Arabic - English Lexical Database was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). It is comprised of a set of five interrelated tables presenting each Moroccan Arabic word as an orthographic form in Arabic script and a pronunciation form in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) format. This release contains over 21,000 Moroccan Arabic words in Arabic script and IPA notation and more than 33,000 English tokens.</p>
<p>This lexical database is the result of a collaboration with&nbsp;<a href="https://press.georgetown.edu/">Georgetown University Press (GUP)&nbsp;</a>to enhance and update three dialectal Arabic dictionaries -- Iraqi, Moroccan and Syrian -- originally published in paper form in the 1960s by GUP.&nbsp; LDC also undertook to develop a lexical database for each dialect.&nbsp;<a href="https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-Georgetown-Dictionary-of-Moroccan-Arabic#:~:text=The%20Georgetown%20Dictionary%20of%20Moroccan%20Arabic%20is%20a%20modernized%20language,Press%20over%20fifty%20years%20ago">The Georgetown Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic&nbsp;</a>was published in 2019; this work was based on, and expanded,&nbsp;<a href="https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/A-Dictionary-of-Moroccan-Arabic">A Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic</a>.</p>
<p>The several enhancements developed by LDC included facilitating comparisons across Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic by providing Arabic script spellings and IPA pronunciations to Moroccan words and phrases; promoting ease of use by language learners and researchers by developing reasonable orthographic conventions for applying the Arabic alphabet to the dialect; and facilitating a user's understanding of morphological and lexical relations by adding information on the linguistic structures of Moroccan Arabic.</p>
<h3>Data</h3>
<p>The number of entries in each table are as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Roots 3,567</li>
<li>Lemmas 14,255</li>
<li>Wordforms 19,927</li>
<li>Definitions 24,911</li>
<li>Phrases 4,418</li>
</ul>
<p>Each table is presented as a tab-delimited, plain-text file with Unicode UTF-8 character encoding and UNIX/Linux-style line terminations (line-feed character only, no carriage-return).</p>
<p>The tables in this database can be combined into one database with the tables in <a href="../../../LDC2025L01">Iraqi Arabic &ndash; English Lexical Database LDC2025L01</a> following the instructions <a href="../../../docs/LDC2025L01/README.txt">here</a>.</p>
<h3>Acknowledgments</h3>
<p>This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Education International Research Studies Program (#P017A0800441) with additional support from GUP and LDC.</p>
<h3>Samples</h3>
<p>Please view these samples:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2023L01_root.tab">Roots</a></li>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2023L01_lemma.tab">Lemmas</a></li>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2023L01_wordform.tab">Wordforms</a></li>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2023L01_eng_def.tab">Definitions</a></li>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2023L01_phrase.tab">Phrases</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Updates</h3>
<p>None at this time.</p>
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