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IBN AHMAD [See also:
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ABU `ABDURRAH*,2AN UL-KHALIL IBN AHMAD IBN `AMR IBN TAMIM] (718-791) , Arabian philologist, was a'native of See also:

OMAN

Oman. He was distinguished for having written the first Arabic See also:

DICTIONARY

dictionary and for having first classified the Arabic metres and laid down their rules. He was also a poet, and lived the ascetic See also:

LIFE

life of a poor student. His grammatical See also:

WORK

work was carried on by his See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil See also:

SIBAWAIHI [Abu Bishr, or Abu-1 Hasan`Amr ibn`Uthman ibn Qanbar, known as SIBAWAIHI or SIBUY1] (c. 753-793)

Sibawaihi. The dictionary known as the Kitab-ul-'See also:

Ain is ascribed, at least in its inception, to Khalil. It was probably finished by one of his pupils and was not known in See also:

BAGDAD, or BAGHDAD

Bagdad until 862. The words were not arranged in alphabetical See also:

order but according to physiological principles, beginning with `Ain and ending with Ya. The work seems to have been in existence as See also:

LATE

late as the 14th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, but is now only known from extracts in See also:

MANUSCRIPT

manuscript. Various grammatical See also:

WORKS

works are ascribed to Khalil, but their authenticity seems doubtful; cf. C. Brockelmann, Gesch. der arabischen Literatur, i. See also:

LOO (formerly called " Lanterloo," Fr. lanturlu, the refrain of a popular 17th-century song)

loo (See also:

WEIMAR

Weimar, 1898). (G.

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