• Kitāb al-ʿAyn (Arabic: كتاب العين) is the first Arabic language dictionary and one of the earliest known dictionaries of any language. It was compiled...
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    dictionary of the Arabic language – and the oldest extant dictionary – Kitab al-'Ayn (Arabic: كتاب العين "The Source") – introduced the now standard harakat...
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  • al-Lugha (جمهرة اللغة). The fame of this comprehensive dictionary of the Arabic language is second only to its predecessor, the Kitab al-'Ayn of al-Farahidi...
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    as transmitted by Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, his master and the famous author of the first Arabic dictionary, "Kitab al-'Ayn", and of many philological...
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    vocalization (التشكيل at-tashkīl). Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (718–786) compiled the first Arabic dictionary, Kitāb al-'Ayn (كتاب العين "The Book of the...
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  • Ayin (redirect from ʻayn)
    al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, who wrote the first Arabic dictionary, actually started writing his Kitab al-'Ayn ('The Book of ʿAyn') with ʿayn as...
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  • (before 976) Al-Mustadrak min az-ziyāda fī Kitab al-Bāri’ alā Kitāb al-‘Ayn Ar-radd ‘alā Ibn Masarra, or Hatk sutūr al-mulḥidīn Risālat al-intiṣār li ‘l-Khalīl...
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    al-aʼyan by Ibn Khallikan biography number 349 Lisān al-ʿArab by Ibn Manzur part 10 page 276 The Wonder of Creation by Zakariya al-Qazwini Kitab al-'Ayn...
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  • Etymology (redirect from AL II)
    systematic etymology in Arabic. **Al‑Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al‑Farāhīdī** (718–786 CE) compiled the first Arabic dictionary, _Kitāb alʿAyn_, in which he organized entries...
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    Kairouan (redirect from Al Qayrawan)
    Ltd, Oxford. 1996. p. 572. ISBN 1-85986-107-5. Alk-Khalil ibn Ahmad, Kitab al-Ayn "القيروان". أطلس الحكمة (in Arabic). 27 April 2021. Retrieved 27 April...
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  • Jahiliyyah (redirect from Al-Jahiliyah)
    Arabic dictionary, the Kitab al-'Ayn of Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, as well as the dictionaries of Ibn Qutayba (d. 889) and Al-Azharī (d. 980). These...
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    (1927–1978), Urdu poet Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (718-786), 8th-century Muslim scholar best known as the author of Kitab al-'Ayn Khalil bey Khasmammadov...
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  • (Arabic-English/German dictionary) List of Arabic encyclopedias The name means "Book of the Ayn (Letter)". The name means "Book of the Jim (Letter)". The name means "Collection...
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    43°29′25.4″E / 32.566111°N 43.490389°E / 32.566111; 43.490389 The Battle of Ayn al-Tamr (Arabic: معركة عين التمر) took place in modern-day Iraq (Mesopotamia)...
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    682 CE Niina glossary of Chinese characters. Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi's 8th century Kitab al-'Ayn is considered the first dictionary of Arabic...
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  • Kitab al-Majmu (Arabic: كتاب المجموع, romanized: Kitāb al-Majmūʿ, lit. 'Book of the Collection') is a book that is claimed to be a primary source of teaching...
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  • the period following the work of al-Khalil bin Ahmad, who died in 786, the founder of Arabic lexicography (kitab al-ayn), and of Sibawayh, who died in 796...
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  • al-Farahidi's Kitab al-'Ayn in a short period of time), and the Quranic judgement that "Men are in charge over women" (Q.4:34), led Joya to accept Al-Bahrumi's...
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  • name is Algebra ). Ibn Duraid Al-Azdi, poet. Khalil Ibn Ahmad Al-Farahidi, author of the first Arabic dictionary (Kitab Al-Ayn), and the teacher of the celebrated...
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  • Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti's book "Al-Mizhar fi Eulum Allughat Wa'anwaeiha" (Arabic: المزهر في علوم اللغة وأنواعها) states that in the Kitab al-'Ayn, the first...
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  • errors in it, asked Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali to write a work codifying Arabic grammar. Khalil ibn Ahmad would later write Kitab al-Ayn, the first dictionary...
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  • an introduction to Khalīl's Kitāb al-ʿAyn. Unable to make a living off his extensive education in Baṣra, he moved to Marw al-Shāhijān. Tradition records...
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  • merely plagiarizing the work of Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, who had written the first Arabic dictionary, Kitab al-'Ayn. Niftawayh was intensely disliked...
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  • instead to work on the Kitāb al-ʽAyn of al-Khalīl, and the commission went to Al-Zajjaj. On 30 March or 6 April 904 (17 or 10 Jumada al-Awwal 291 AH), being...
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    and his father A history of Khawarezm Kitab al-Āthār al-Bāqīyah ‘an al-Qurūn al-Khālīyah.[page needed] Risālah li-al-Bīrūnī (Epître de Berūnī) Biruni wrote...
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  • Fāris's Kitāb al-ʿAyn and Kitāb al-Jīm. The work was influenced by al-Khalīl and in turn influenced al-Fīrūzābādī's Qāmūs. Mu‘jam maqāyīs al-lugha (Arabic:...
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    Houri (redirect from Hour al ayn)
    ,حُورِيّ, romanized: ḥūriyy, ḥūrīya, lit. 'maiden'), or houris or hoor al ayn in plural form, is a maiden woman with beautiful eyes who lives alongside...
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    mathematician Al-Farahidi (c. 718 – 791), writer and philologist, compiled the first dictionary of the Arabic language, the Kitab al-Ayn Al-Fasi, Abu al-Mahasin...
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    Arabic dictionary, the Kitab al-'Ayn, was announced in 1914 in this journal. In 1914, as World War I had started, the Ottomans accused al-Karmali of being a...
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  • Ahmad Ghazali). The other is ʿAyn al-Quzat's own letter, published in the Namaha-yi ʿAyn al-Quzat Hamadani (Letters by ʿAyn al-Quzat Hamadani). Later, Ay...
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