Dictionary form of Arabic verbs?

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I’ve been learning (MSA) Arabic for a couple of months and I noticed that the verbs don’t seem to have an infinitive form. As you know, with Arabic verbs, you add prefixes and suffixes to the stem/root form for each person and tense.

I want to start learning more verbs. So I would like to know, if I look up verbs in an Arabic to English dictionary, what form will the verbs be in? Are they just listed as the stem/root form in the dictionary, or some other form? Thanks.

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Can anyone answer this please?

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Hi!
I have never had an Arabic/English dictionary, however I think Arabic verbs should be listed in the the third person’s past-tense form. For example,
أكل
ذهب
سافر
Etc. I hope that helped.

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