• 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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  • gadol) of aleph-mem-shīn to Kitab al-Majmu's secret (sirr) of ʿayn-mīm-sīn. Contemporary Alawis insist that the Kitab al-Majmu is fabricated, some even...
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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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    (1927–1978), Urdu poet Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi: an 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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