Svenska Akademiens ordbok
Svenska Akademiens ordbok, 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 or the Deutsches Wörterbuch.
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. Updating of the earlier volumes, A to R, is expected to continue until 2030. The last volume was printed in about 500 copies. The 39 volumes total 33,111 pages. The searchable web version has been available since 1997. Citations date back to 1521.