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Gesta Romanorum (c. early 14th century) is a Latin collection of anecdotes and tales ambiguously translated as Deeds of the Romans. It was one of the most popular books of the time used as source material for Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and others. [59] The early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum (1879). [60]
Richardson's Persian-Arabic–English Dictionary, year 1852 Edition – 1400 pages; downloadable; Middle English Dictionary – biggest and best for late medieval English, fully searchable online; Online Etymology Dictionary – compiled by Douglas Harper – Online Etymology Dictionary; CollinsDictionary.com – online copy of Collins English ...
9-10th century The dictionary was inspired in part by the earlier dictionary Kitab al-Ayn of al-Farahidi. [5] Tahdhib al-Lugha [n 4] (Arabic: تهذيب اللغة) Abu Manshur al-Azhari al-Harawi (Arabic: أبو منصور الأزهري الهروي) (b. 895 - d. 981) 10th century The dictionary is important as a source of the Lisan al-Arab. [6]
The forms "garbellage" and "garblage" meaning the garbage or inferior material removed by sifting, are recorded spottily in English from the 14th through 18th centuries and those are clearly from garble. [4] [50] genet/genetta (nocturnal mammal) Seen in 13th-century English, [49] 13th-century French and Catalan, and 12th-century Portuguese. [10]
Feroz-ul-Lughat Urdu Jamia (Urdu: فیروز الغات اردو جامع) is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary published by Ferozsons (Private) Limited. It was originally compiled by Maulvi Ferozeuddin in 1897. The dictionary contains about 100,000 ancient and popular words, compounds, derivatives, idioms, proverbs, and modern scientific, literary ...
Also known as Abu'l-Fath (fl. 1335), he was a 14th-century Samaritan chronicler. [138] The Samaritan chronicle of Abu'l Fatah; the Arabic text from the manuscript in the Bodleian Library (1865). [139] English translation by the Rev. Robert Payne Smith (1818–1895). Abū al-Fidā'. Abū al-Fidā' (1273–1331) was a Kurdish geographer and ...
'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. [1] [2] [3]
Drama from the Middle Ages to the Early Twentieth Century: An Anthology of Plays with Old Spelling. [178] Edited by Christopher J. Wheatley. [179] Early Travels in Palestine (1848). [180] By English antiquarian and writer Thomas Wright (1810–1877). [181] [182] Egyptian tales and romances: pagan, Christian and Muslim (1931). [183]