Modern military dictionary English - Arabic / Arabic - English

Modern military dictionary English - Arabic / Arabic - English

Author: 
Kayyali, Maher S.
Place: 
New York
Publisher: 
Hippocrene Books
Phys descriptions: 
[10], 236p.
Date published: 
1997
Record type: 
Edition: 
2nd ed.
ISBN: 
0781802431
Call No: 
355(038)=20=927 KAY
Abstract: 

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 techniques terms for the specialists, 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 missiles, logbook, metagon, orbital velocity, rate of fire, squadron, target allocation, verification fire, zero hour. In giving the equivalent Arabic term reference has been accorded to those terms agreed by the Arabic Academic Centres in Cairo, Amman, Damascus, Baghdad and Rabat, and to the widely accepted terms that have been coined by contemporary specialists and linguists.

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CITATION: Kayyali, Maher S.. Modern military dictionary English - Arabic / Arabic - English . New York : Hippocrene Books , 1997. - Available at: https://library.au.int/modern-military-dictionary-english-arabic-arabic-english-4