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Kitab al-'Ayn [n 1] (Arabic: كتاب العين) Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (Arabic: الخليل بن أحمد الفراهيدي) (b. 718 - d. 791) 8th century Kitab al-Ayn was the first dictionary for the Arabic language. [1] Kitab al-Jim [n 2] (Arabic: كتاب الجيم) a.k.a. Kitab al-Lughat or Kitab al-Huruf: Abu Amr al-Shaybani
Al-Farahidi introduces the dictionary with an outline of the phonetics of Arabic. [9] The format he adopted for the dictionary consisted of twenty-six books, a book for every letter, with weak letters combined as a single book; the number of chapters of each book accords with the number of radicals, [9] with the weak radicals being listed last.
It has Arabic to English translations and English to Arabic, as well as a significant quantity of technical terminology. It is useful to translators as its search results are given in context. [6] Almaany offers correspondent meanings for Arabic terms with semantically similar words and is widely used in Arabic language research. [7]
A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (originally published in German as Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart 'Arabic dictionary for the contemporary written language'), also published in English as The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, is a translation dictionary of modern written Arabic compiled by Hans Wehr. [1]
Al-Qāmus al-Muḥīṭ (Arabic: القاموس المحيط, lit. 'The Encompassing Ōkeanós ') is an Arabic dictionary compiled by the lexicographer and linguist , Abū al-Ṭāhir Majīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ya’qūb ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shīrāzī al-Fīrūzābādī (1329–1414), commonly known as Firuzabadi .
Al Raya (Arabic: الراية, romanized: The Banner) is an Arabic daily newspaper published in Doha, Qatar. It is semi-official newspaper of the country and is one of the five leading Qatari dailies. [1] As for Arabic dailies published in the country Al Raya is among the three major newspapers along with Al Sharq and Al Watan. [2]
The Arabic–English Lexicon is an Arabic–English dictionary compiled by Edward William Lane (died 1876), It was published in eight volumes during the second half of the 19th century. It consists of Arabic words defined and explained in the English language. But Lane does not use his own knowledge of Arabic to give definitions to the words.
Over time, Hanafi jurists gradually came to accept the primacy of the Quran and hadith advocated by the Ahl al-Hadith creedal group, restricting the use of other forms of legal reasoning to interpretation of these scriptures. [7] In turn, Hanbali jurists, who had led the Ahl al-Hadith creedal group, gradually came to accept the use of qiyas. [7]