There are two ways to look up an Arabic word:
An easy way, with an online Arabic-Dutch dictionary. A more difficult way, with a physical Arabic-Dutch dictionary. In this article I explain how you can search in an online Arabic dictionary. Searching a physical Arabic dictionary is done using the radicals of a word. This requires an extensive explanation and is therefore not discussed now. Inshaa'a Allah we will address this in the future.
Look up words in an online Arabic dictionary
First I give an overview of all the dictionaries and websites that I use, then I give an explanation (with print screens) of how to use an online Arabic dictionary. Translate.google.com Arabic-Dutch dictionaryFor looking up simple words. Tip: Arabic - English is more extensive. Almaany.com Arabic-English DictionaryIn addition to the English translation, it also provides the synonym of the word in Arabic. Tip: This is the best foreign language dictionary, use this dictionary if your English is good. Almaany.com Arabic-Arabic dictionaryLooking up the meaning in ArabicLooking up the plural in ArabicConjugating verbsLooking up the masdarFinding the radicals of a word Qutrub.arabeyes.com For conjugating verbs Corpus.quran.com Arabic-English Quran dictionary, indispensable if you want to study the Quran linguistically. For looking up the radicals of words in the Quran Indicates the part of speech of each word in the Quran (Visual) grammatical analysis of words in the Quran
Learning to work with an online Arabic dictionary
When we look up Arabic words in a dictionary, we use three online dictionaries at the same time (but each for its own purpose). We use a:
Arabic-Dutch dictionaryArabic-English dictionaryArabic-Arabic dictionary