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Speakers of Egyptian Arabic generally call their vernacular 'Arabic' (عربى, [ˈʕɑrɑbi]) when juxtaposed with non-Arabic languages; "Colloquial Egyptian" (العاميه المصريه, [el.ʕæmˈmejjæ l.mɑsˤˈɾejjɑ]) or simply "Aamiyya" (عاميه, colloquial) when juxtaposed with Modern Standard Arabic and the Egyptian dialect (اللهجه المصريه, [elˈlæhɡæ l ...
Taj Al-ʿArus min Jawahir Al-Qamus (تَاج العَرُوس مِن جَوَاهِر القَامُوس, short title Taj al-ʿArus; "The Bride's Crown from the Pearls of al-Qāmūs") is an Arabic language dictionary written by the Egyptian scholar Murtada al-Zabidi (Arabic: محمد مرتضى الحسيني الزبيدي; 1732–1790), one of the foremost philologists of the Arab post ...
The Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo was born out of ideas and movements of late 19th century Egypt, including: Pan-Islamism, Pan-Arabism, and the Nahda. [7] It was modeled after language academies in the Arab world and abroad, most notably the Institut d'Égypte .
The Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia (Egyptian Arabic: ويكيبيديا مصرى [wikiˈbedjæ ˈmɑsˤɾi, wikiˈpidjæ]) is the Egyptian Arabic version of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. This Wikipedia primarily acts as an alternative to the Arabic Wikipedia in favor of speakers of the Egyptian dialect . [ 2 ]
Yūsuf al-Maġribi (Arabic: يوسف المغربي) was a 17th-century traveler and lexicographer active in Cairo.He is the first author to treat Egyptian Arabic as a dialect distinct from Classical Arabic, compiling an Egyptian Arabic word list, the Raf` al-'iṣr `an kalām 'ahl miṣr (i.e. "apology of the Egyptian vernacular", literally "the lifting of the burden from the speech of the ...
Occupying 20 printed book volumes (in the most frequently cited edition), it is the best known dictionary of the Arabic language, [2] as well as one of the most comprehensive. Ibn Manzur compiled it from other sources to a large degree.
[3] He worked in collaboration on the El-Said Badawi Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic. [3] Davies began translating while working on a critical edition and lexicon of Yusuf al-Shirbini's Hazz al-Quhuf bi-Sharh Qasid Abi Shaduf (Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded), a 17th-century Egyptian text on Ottoman rural culture.
Ahmad Amin (Arabic: أحمد أمين), (1954-1886) was an Egyptian historian and writer. He wrote a series of books on the history of the Islamic civilization (1928–1953), a famous autobiography ( My Life , 1950), as well as an important dictionary of Egyptian folklore (1953).