sentences:  Lane translates these definitions into English, and he carefully notes which dictionaries are giving which definitions.In 1842, Lane, who had already won fame as an Arabist for his "Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians" and his version of the "One Thousand and One Nights", received a sponsorship from Lord Prudhoe, later Duke of Northumberland, to compile an Arabic–English dictionary.Lane set to work at once, making his third voyage to Cairo to collect materials in the same year.