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Al-Mufradat fi Gharib al-Quran (Arabic: المفردات في غريب القرآن) is a classical dictionary of Qur'anic terms by 11th-century Sunni Islamic scholar Al-Raghib al-Isfahani. It is widely considered by Muslims to hold the first place among works of Arabic lexicography in regard to the Qur'an .
The dictionary was completed in 1410. [13] It contains about 60,000 dictionary entries. [14] The dictionary served as the basis of later European dictionaries of Arabic. [15] Ahkam Bab al-I`rab `n Lughat al-A`rab (Arabic: أحكام باب الإعراب عن لغة الأعراب) [citation needed] Germanus Farhat (1670–1732)
Al-Raghib was suspected as Shia sympathizer, [8] due to his statement for his love of Ahl al-Bayt.Meanwhile, some thought he was a Mu'tazilite. [9]However, one of his works entitled al-I'tiqadat, al-Raghib attacks both the Mu'tazila and the Shi'a showing that questions about his adherence to either of these positions is groundless.
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Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms. [40] [41]
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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. [1] [2] [3]
The letter ayn (ع) of the dictionary's title is regarded as phonetically the deepest letter in the Arabic alphabet. In addition the word ayn carries the sense of 'a water source in the desert'. Its title "the source" alludes also to the author's interest in etymology and tracing the meanings of words to their Arabic origins.