The Arabic lexicographical tradition : from the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th century

The Arabic lexicographical tradition : from the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th century / by Ramzi Baalbaki.

A comprehensive and methodologically sophisticated history of Arabic lexicography, this book examines the aims, range, and approaches of the most important writings and writers of lexica specialized in specific topics and multi thematic thesauri, and the lexica arranged according to roots.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baʻlabakkī, Ramzī
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Series:Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; volume 107.
Subjects:
Arabic language > Lexicography > History.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Arabic.
Arabic language > Lexicography
Arabisch
Lexikografie
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Chapter 1 Early Lexicographical Activity; 1 The Background of Linguistic Study; 2 The Speech of the Bedouins (A rāb); 3 The Collection of Data; 4 The Epochs of Reliable Usage (Uṣūr al-Iḥtiǧāǧ); 5 The Role of Ġarīb; 6 The Compilation of Lexica; 7 Remarks on Contemporary Scholarship and the Originality of Arabic Lexicography; Chapter 2 Mubawwab (Onomasiological) and Specialized Lexica; 1 Introduction; 2 al-Ġarīb (Strange Usage) and al-Nawādir (Rare Usage); 2.1 Ġarīb al-Qur ān; 2.2 Ġarīb al-Ḥadīt̲; 2.3 General Ġarīb/Nādir Material; 3 al-Amt̲āl (Proverbs)
  • 3.1 Books with no Alphabetical Arrangement3.2 Alphabetically Arranged Books; 3.3 Books Specialized in a Particular Aspect of Proverbs; 4 al-Nabāt (Plants), al-Ḥayawān (Animals), Ḫalq al-Insān (Human Body), etc.; 4.1 Plants; 4.2 Animals; 4.3 Human Body; 4.4 Miscellanea; 5 al-Mu arrab (Arabized Words); 6 Laḥn al- Āmma (Solecism); 7 al-Aḍdād (Words with Two Contradictory Meanings); 8 al-Muštarak (Homonyms) and al-Mutarādif (Synonyms); 9 al-Ḥurūf/al-Aṣwāt (Particles/Letters); 10 al-Abniya (Morphological Patterns); 10.1 al-Ištiqāq (Derivation)
  • 10.2 al-Mud̲akkar wa-l-mu annat̲ (Masculine and Feminine)10.3 al-Maqṣūr wa-l-mamdūd (Abbreviated and Prolonged Patterns); 10.4 al-Mut̲allat̲āt (Triplets); 10.5 Nominal Patterns; 10.6 Fa ala and Af ala; 10.7 Verbal Patterns in General; 10.8 Nominal and Verbal Patterns; 11 Multithematic Works; Chapter 3 Muǧannas (Semasiological) Lexica; 1 Introduction; 2 The Phonetic-Permutative System; 2.1 Kitāb al- Ayn by al-Ḫalīl b. Aḥmad (d. 175/791); 2.2 al-Bāri fī l-luġa by Abū Alī al-Qālī (d. 356/967); 2.3 Tahd̲īb al-luġa by Azharī (d. 370/981); 2.4 al-Muḥīṭ fī l-luġa by al-Ṣāḥib b. Abbād (d. 385/995)
  • 2.5 al-Muḥkam wa-l-muḥīṭ al-a ẓam by Ibn Sīda (d. 458/1066)3 The Alphabetical System; 3.1 K. al-Ǧīm by Abū Amr al-Šaybānī (d. 206/821); 3.2 Ǧamharat al-luġa by Ibn Durayd (d. 321/933); 3.3 Maqāyīs al-luġa and Muǧmal al-luġa by Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004); 3.4 Asās al-balāġa by Zamaḫšarī (d. 538/1144); 4 The Rhyme System; 4.1 al-Taqfiya fī l-luġa by Bandanīǧī (d. 284/897); 4.2 Tāǧ al-luġa wa-ṣaḥāḥ al- Arabiyya (al-Ṣaḥāḥ/al-Ṣiḥāḥ) by Ǧawharī (d. c. 400/1010); 4.3 al- Ubāb al-zāḫir wa-l-lubāb al-fāḫir by Ṣaġānī (d. 650/1252); 4.4 Lisān al- Arab by Ibn Manẓūr (d. 711/1311)
  • 4.5 al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ by Fīrūzābādī (d. 817/1415)4.6 Tāǧ al- arūs min ǧawāhir al-Qāmūs by Zabīdī (d. 1205/1790); Epilogue; Bibliographical References; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index of Names; Index of Books.

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