Arabic-L:LING:Arabic etymological dictionaries

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Date: 11 Jan 2011
From: Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at gmail.com>
Subject: Arabic etymological dictionaries


I think this could only be done through digitisation and electronic processing of large numbers of texts.  A vast project.

While I too would love vast amounts of medieval and modern texts made machine-readable, there *was* an OED before we had the OCP, you know. :-) It is just possible that the requisite textual scholarship exists in the great universities of the Middle East, and perhaps beyond. What is not a given is a lexicographic team with the will to organize all this scattered erudition. 

-Dan.

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Date: 11 Jan 2011
From: <rstock at drew.edu>
Subject: Arabic etymological dictionaries

Wonderful idea, Ben and one that has long intrigued me, in all the permutations you cite here.--Raymond

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Date: 11 Jan 2011
From: Antonio Giménez <huesteantigua at yahoo.es>
Subject: Arabic etymological dictionaries

While not being etymological dictionaries strictly speaking, some
lexicographical works on Andalusi Arabic by Professor Federico Corriente
contain valuable etymological information (see e.g. /A Dictionary of
Andalusi Arabic/, Brill, 1997).

Antonio Giménez

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