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Lets sit down and analyse these "dictionaries" and try not to laugh at this mess

Reader comment on item: Arabist Snobs
in response to reader comment: Teaching Arabic to wannabe Arabs and the Arabic word receipt means وصل or اصال ! استلام? Means receiving and you need to stick to Urdu

Submitted by Jamil (United Kingdom), Mar 3, 2015 at 10:13

And here is from not one but two dictionaries English/Arabic

http://www.wordreference.com/enar/receipt

And here is another dictionary

http://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-arabic/receipt

This "dictionary" also says the following:

Is a certain translation missing here? Let us know or submit your own translation below.

Now why is dhimmi "the arabic expert" using editable online dictionaries. Straight to the trash can with this.

Lets move on.

But the word استلام means RECEIVING it does not mean receipt

Then you better write to the editors of Hans Wehr because on page426, they have listed استلام as "receipt" and here is the link for those of you that want to check it for yourselves:

https://archive.org/details/Dict_Wehr.pdf

Now read 'em and weep and make sure you do report back.

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