{{italic title}} {{Infobox book series | name = ''Svenska Akademiens ordbok'' | image = SAOB vol. 20-35 (edit).jpg | image_caption = Volumes of ''Svenska Akademiens ordbok'' | books = | author = | editors = {{plainlist| * Theodor Wisén 1884 * Knut Fredrik Söderwall 1892 * Esaias Tegnér Jr. 1913 * {{ill|Ebbe Tuneld|sv}} 1920 * {{ill|Pelle Holm|sv}} 1942 * {{ill|Sven Ekbo|sv}} 1957 * {{ill|Anders Sundqvist|sv}} 1978 * Hans Jonsson 1979 * Lars Svensson 1993 * Anki Mattisson 1999 * Marianne Gellwar 2015 * Christian Mattsson 2015 }} | title_orig = Ordbok över svenska språket utgiven av Svenska Akademien | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Sweden | language = Swedish | discipline = | publisher = Swedish Academy | pub_date = 1893–2023<ref name="AFP2023">{{cite news |title=Official Swedish dictionary completed after 140 years |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/25/official-swedish-dictionary-completed-after-140-years |access-date=26 October 2023 |work=The Guardian |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=25 October 2023}}</ref><ref name=SVT>{{cite news |first=Helena |last=Bohm Nilsson |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/sbenska-akademiens-ordbok-finansieringen-oviss-efter-bokstaven-o |title=Efter 140 år – här skrivs sista sidan i Svenska Akademiens ordbok |work=Sveriges Television |date=2021-12-17 |access-date=2022-03-23}}</ref> | english_pub_date = | media_type = | number_of_books = 39 | list_books = | oclc = 1063333686 | preceded by = | followed by = | website = [https://www.saob.se/ www.saob.se] }} thumb|A complete set of ''Svenska Akademiens ordbok'', as of late 2014. The majority of the volumes remain unbound in this set. '''''Svenska Akademiens ordbok''''' ({{IPA|sv|ˈsvɛ̂nːska akadɛˈmiːns ˈûːɖˌbuːk|lang}}), abbreviated '''SAOB''', is a historical dictionary of the Swedish language published by the Swedish Academy. It is the Swedish counterpart of the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (OED) or the ''Deutsches Wörterbuch'' (DWB).
Work on the dictionary started in 1787. The first edition was published in 39 volumes between 1898 and 2023, in Swedish alphabetical order, and contains over 500,000 entries.<ref name="AFP2023"/> Updating of the earlier volumes, A to R, is expected to continue until 2030.<ref name="AFP2023"/> The last volume was printed in about 500 copies. The 39 volumes total 33,111 pages.<ref name="AFP2023"/> The searchable web version has been available since 1997. Citations date back to 1521.<ref name="AFP2023"/>
==Volumes== {| class="wikitable" !! bgcolor="#FFEBAD"|Volume !!bgcolor="#FFEBAD"| Words!!bgcolor="#FFEBAD" |Publication year |- |1|| A–ANLÖPNING || 1898 |- |2|| ANMANA–BARHUFVAD || 1903 |- |3|| BARHUFVUD–BETA || 1906 |- |4|| BETACKA–BLYSTRA || 1916 |- |5|| BLÅ–CZEK || 1925 |- |6|| D–DISTINGERA || 1925 |- |7|| DISTINGERAD–EXULANT || 1925 |- |8|| F–FULGURIT || 1926 |- |9|| FULL–FÖTTLING || 1928 |- |10|| G–GÖTTNISK || 1929 |- |11|| H–HYDDA || 1932 |- |12|| HYDE–INSTRUKTÖR || 1933 |- |13|| INSTRUMENT–KAZIK || 1935 |- |14|| KED–KRALLA || 1937 |- |15|| KRAM–LEUTERERA || 1939 |- |16|| LEV–MARKGÄLD || 1942 |- |17|| MARKIS–MÖTE || 1945 |- |18|| N–OKÖRD || 1949 |- |19|| OL–PEPTON || 1952 |- |20|| PER–PRÄSTINNA || 1954 |- |21|| PRÖJS–REM || 1957 |- |22|| REMANENS–RULT || 1959 |- |23|| RULTA–RÖXNA || 1962 |- |24|| S–SEGMENTERA || 1965 |- |25|| SEGMENTÄR–SKALLRA || 1969 |- |26|| SKALLRIG–SKRÄPIG || 1973 |- |27|| SKRÄPP–SLUV || 1977 |- |28|| SLUVRA–SOLANIN || 1981 |- |29|| SOLAR–SPÅNTA || 1985 |- |30|| SPÅR–STOCKNA || 1989 |- |31|| STOD–STÅ || 1993 |- |32|| STÅ AN–SVÄPA || 1999 |- |33|| SVÄR–TALKUMERA || 2002 |- |34|| TALL–TOJS || 2005 |- |35|| TOK–TYNA || 2009 |- |36|| TYNGA–UTSUDDA || 2012 |- |37|| UTSUG–VRETA || 2017 |- |38|| VRETT–ÅVÄXT || 2021 |- |39|| Ä–ÖXLA || 2023 |- |}
==See also== *''Svenska Akademiens ordlista'' — the Swedish Academy's single-volume spelling dictionary
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== External links == *[http://www.saob.se/ Svenska Akademiens ordbok] *[http://www.svenskaakademien.se/en The Swedish Academy] – Official site (in English)
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