A historical dictionary that is suitable for students of the history of language study and those interested in the history of Arabic study.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia comprises of twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. This title contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia comprises of twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. This title contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.

A historical dictionary that is suitable for students of the history of language study and those interested in the history of Arabic study.

Greek-English and English-Greek dictionary with an Appendix of Proper and Geographical Names.

This revised and expanded translation of Grimm's New Testament dictionary lists the appearances of each word in the New Testament.

A splendid dictionary intended for the early Rabbinic commentaries and exegesis of the Hebrew Testament: the Gemara, the Mishnah, and the Talmud.

The famous Persian dictionary of Sayyid Abdurrashid, now quite difficult to locate, is an historic dictionary to which linguists still make reference. The Farhang I Rashidi was compiled by the Persian scholar Abd ur-Rashid bin Abd ul-Ghafur Husaini al-Madani al-Tattawi (d. 1653) who lived in Thatta, now the Sindh province of Pakistan. One of two dictionaries compiled by Abd ur-Rashid, this lexicon, presented entirely in Classic Persian, marks a turning point in Persian lexicography and ranks as one of the cultural and literary achievements of the seventeenth century. The two volumes of this...

This historic dictionary was the first French-Kurdish dictionary ever published. Compiled by Auguste Jaba, a Polish diplomat in the Russian service in the Middle East, this lexical enterprise initiated an interest in the under-studied language of the Kurds. Entries are written in the modified Arabic script for Kurdish, and are provided with a pronunciation key and translation into French. Historians of the languages of Iraq and Kurdistan will find having this dictionary essential to the unfolding growth of knowledge about this region.

For the student of ancient Iranian documents, this time-honored source for using the sacred texts of the Zoroastrians, this glossary and index is an historical dictionary of an unusual sort. The materials from three works provide the basis for this glossary: the Pahlavi text of Arda Viraf, the tale of Gosht-I Fryano, the Hadokht Nask, and extracts from the Din-Kard and Nirangistan. All of these documents pertaining to Zoroastrian belief and practice are facilitated by this historic glossary. Based on the edition of E. W. West, the text was revised by Martin Haug. A work of scholarly erudition...