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Lisan ul Arab لسان العرب (Lisaan ul Arab) is the most famous and one of the most comprehensive dictionaries of the Arabic language. Ibn e Manzoor ابن منظور compiled his book from the material found in 5 books mainly : Tahdhib al-Lughah by al-Azhari تهذيب اللغة , al-Muhkam by Ibn Sidah المحكم , as-Sihaah by al-Jawhari الصحاح , Hashiyyat as-Sihaah / Hawaashi by Ibn Barri حاشيات الصحاح / حواشي , and an-Nahayyah by Ibn al-Athir النهاية في غريب الحديث . He also used material from some other books. He cites The Qur’an, Hadith, and poetry in explaining the words. He has also rewritten information from some books in a more sequenced manner. Lane indicated that Taj ul Uroos which was his main source for his Arabic English Lexicon was mainly derived from Lisan al Arab. Lane said in preface page xxvii of An Arabic English Lexicon by Edward William Lane that : "Frequently it happens that an explanation is essentially the same in the Lisan el 'Arab and the Taj el-'Aroos, but more full, or more clear, in the former". Explanations are more full, or more clear in Lisaan ul Arab as compared to Taj ul Uroos. More material is in Taj ul Uroos as compared to Lisan ul Arab, but individual material if found in both usually has more detail and clarity in Lisan ul Arab as compared to Taj ul Uroos.



It is mentioned on page 81 in "Arabic Lexicography:  Its history, and its place in the general history of lexicography by Haywood" that (text in brackets added by me) "It (i.e. Lisaan ul ‘Arab) contains 80,000 entries, each devoted to one root and its derivatives, a number which was only surpassed by the "Tāj al-'Arūs" with its 120,000; the latter (i.e. Taaj ul 'Uroos) however, is comparatively deficient in its illustrative examples. (Reference to this statement in book is given to Ibrāhīm al Yazijī, articles Lisān al-‘Arab in "al-Diya', Vol. VI (1903-4), pp. 65-66. See also Dawrish, 100, Hamza, 243.") The definitions  of the “Lisān” are full, leaving no room for ambiguity: two or more definitions are often given for a single word, to ensure clarity. Numerous examples are quoted from the Qurān, the Sunna, poetry and proverbs...”
On page 82 of same book, he says, “Though Lane may have favoured the  "Tāj al-'Arūs", to the average educated Arab, the “Lisān” is still the major reference...

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لسان العرب
مقاييس اللغة
الصّحّاح في اللغة
القاموس المحيط
العباب الزاخر

لسان العرب هو أشمل معاجم اللغة العربية وأكبرها، قام ابن منظور بجمع مادته من خمسة مصادر وهي

تهذيب اللغة للأزهري
المحكم لابن سيده
الصحاح للجوهري
حواشي ابن بري
النهاية في غريب الحديث لعز الدين ابن الأثير.

أراد ابن منظور بكتابه أن يجمع بين صفتين: الاستقصاء والترتيب؛ إذ كانت المعاجم السابقة –كما يقول هو– تعنى بأحد هذين الأمرين دون الآخر، و أخذ على نفسه أن يأخذ ما في مصادره الخمسة بنصه دون خروج عليه، واعتبر هذا جهده الوحيد في الكتاب، وتبرأ من تبعة أية أخطاء محتملة بأن ما قد يقع في الكتاب من خطأ هو من الأصول، وإن تصرف قليلا في النهاية فغير شيئا من ترتيبها.

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The site www.baheth.info has the ability to search and return good search results containing relevant data from the following 5 books, highlighting the searched root or word along with other related words in all the 5 dictionaries:
Lisan al Arab لسان العرب
Maqayis al Lughah مقاييس اللغة
Al Qamoos ul Muheet القاموس المحيط
As Sihah fil Lughah الصّحّاح في اللغة
Al Ubab uz Zakhir العباب الزاخر
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Baheth contains alot of advertisements which you must not click. Also the owner of site has made it such that you can not directly link to any root or word. Any link to a root on baheth from external site does not work. All links coming to the site usually end up in same basic page. All search has to be done via searching within the search box.

I had contacted the author to offer freely downloadable version, but no response received. 

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The words related to searched term are highlighted in yellow. In 1st image, I have not shown highlight. But in 2nd image above, you can see words related to فرق highlighted in yellow.

Now, how to effectively search and study words and roots. You can type in roots or words without harkaat using Yamli inbuilt into baheth or you can type in Eiktub without harkaat and copy and paste here. See Typing Arabic Letters in various Tools and Sites using the English equivalent Letters for knowing which English letters you have to type to get corresponding Arabic letters.

Above you can see, I typed frq and yamli automatically suggested various options, I have to click to get my required root فرق searched. Other option is to type in Eiktub and then copy and paste in search box above. After entering the required root or word, type the button ابحث to search. Searching gives 1st highlighted results and returns roots having the related words highlighted in yellow. This is 1st level of highlight, pinpointing possible areas of more interest. Here I have searched فرق but you can make the highlighting even more focused by searching the exact word you want to search e.g. you can search فرقان instead to get more specific and narrower results.

To get another level of highlight to get more focused pinpointing in addition to above فرق related highlighting, see following method. Suppose now you also want to get فرقان highlighted in different color to get 2 levels of highlighted words. Press Ctrl and then also press f while pressing Ctrl button on keyboard i.e. Ctrl+f.
In browsers this will open a search box and within this search box you can paste the required word, after typing on Eiktub or Yamli and then press Enter.
You can use any browser for searching for 2nd level, below methods are shown for 3 browsers from which you can use any or you can use any other browser also.
Opera gave 38 results since it searched regardless of harkaat in baheth data:

Internet Explorer gave 38 results when فرقانwas searched, again regardless of harkaat in baheth data. Next and previous buttons have to be pressed to get the term highlighted and see it in context:

Firefox gave 2 results for search without harkaat only since it also takes harkaat into account and to get full results you will have to search and and others. 1st I search فرقان to get 2 results.

Then I search فُرْقان to get 31 more results

Repeat above steps to search other roots and words.