Manding-English Dictionary

Manding-English Dictionary
Author: Vydrine, Valentin
Publisher: MeaBooks
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2015-02-07
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0993996922

Manding is a common name for several closely related languages in West Africa: Maninka (or Malinke), Bamana (or Bambara), Jula, Mandinka, Xasonka, etc., spoken by up to 40 million people. In this dictionary, forms of Malian Bamana and Guinean Maninka are included. The polysemy of words is represented in all details, the senses are represented hierarchically. Verbal valencies are indicated throughout and clarified by abundant illustrative examples. Numerous idiomatic expressions are given. Most of lexemes are provided with etymological information: sources of borrowing or proto-forms and their reflexes in other Mande languages. The dictionary is oriented toward advanced language learners and professional linguists, but it can be also useful for native speakers of Bamana and Maninka languages.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Author: Eric Donald Hirsch
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 944
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780618226474

Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary
Author: J. A. Simpson
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1993
Genre: English language
ISBN: 0198600275

This is the third in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Volume 3 contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world, including the UK (Citizen's Charter), North America (affluential, Clintonomics), Australia (beardie), and the West Indies (zouk). A wide variety of subjects is covered, including the sciences (buckyball, nanotechnology, Tourette syndrome), finance (junk bond, negative equity), literary theory (metafiction), computing (freeware, core dump), and sport (basho, lowball).