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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136633403321

Autore

Ibn Rasūl al-Ghassānī al-ʻAbbās ibn ʻAlī -1376 or 1377

Titolo

The Arabic-Ethiopian glossary / / by al-Malik al-Afdal ; an annotated edition with a linguistic introduction and lexical indices by Maria Bulakh and Leonid Kogan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-32182-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (499 pages, 3 numbered pages of plates) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, , 0169-9423 ; ; Volume 113

Disciplina

492.73928

Soggetti

Arabic language - Ethiopian

Arabic language

Ethiopian languages - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Annotated Edition -- Appendix 1: Summary of the Contents of the Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary -- Appendix 2: Arabic Graphemes and the Values Ascribed to Them in the Edition -- Lexical Index -- Facsimiles.

Sommario/riassunto

The Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary by al-Malik al-Afḍal by Maria Bulakh and Leonid Kogan is a detailed annotated edition of a unique monument of Late Medieval Arabic lexicography, comprising 475 Arabic lexemes (some of them post-classical Yemeni dialectisms) translated into several Ethiopian idioms and put down in Arabic letters in a late-fourteenth century manuscript from a codex in a private Yemeni collection. For the many languages involved, the Glossary provides the earliest written records, by several centuries pre-dating the most ancient attestations known so far. The edition, preceded by a comprehensive linguistic introduction, gives a full account of the comparative material from all known Ethiopian Semitic languages. A detailed index ensures the reader’s orientation in the lexical treasures revealed from the Glossary.