“An Etymological Dictionary of Arabic”

148 Pages·2013·7.73 MB·English

“An Etymological
Dictionary of Arabic”
Peyman Mikaili
(Iranian Academy of Sciences,
Teheran, IR)
Oslo 2013
Art is long, vitality or life is brief!
Kunst er lang, er vitalitet eller livet kort!
Different Periods of Ar.
 pre-Islamic: Afroasian
 pre-Islamic: Semitic, Middle Persian, Greek, Roman
 early Islamic / Umayyad
 Abbasid
 post-classical / pre-colonial / Ottoman
 Nahḍa
 post-nahḍa
 dialects ???
Different Periods
 pre-Islamic: Afroasian
 pre-Islamic: Semitic, Middle Persian, Greek, Roman
CAr.
(Classical)
 early Islamic / Umayyad
 Abbasid
MAr.
 post-classical / pre-colonial / Ottoman
(Post-Classical or Pre-Modern)
 Nahḍa
 post-nahḍa
NAr.
(Modern)
 dialects ???
CAr.
(Classical)
Different Periods
CAr.
(Classical)
 pre-Islamic: Afroasian
 pre-Islamic: Semitic, Middle Persian, Greek, Roman
CAr.
(Classical)
 early Islamic / Umayyad
 Abbasid
MAr.
(PoCl or PreM)
 post-classical / pre-colonial / Ottoman
 Nahḍa MAr.
 post-nahḍa
 dialects ???
NAr.
(Modern)
Different Periods
 pre-Islamic: Afroasian
 pre-Islamic: Semitic, Middle Persian, Greek, Roman
 early Islamic / Umayyad
 Abbasid
 post-classical / pre-colonial / Ottoman
 Nahḍa
 post-nahḍa
 dialects ???
NAr.
(Modern)
Modern Words
NAr.
(Modern)
NAr.
(Modern)
NAr.
(Modern)
Modern Words
NAr.
(Modern)
Dialectal Words
NAr.
(Modern)
NS-NAr. 
(Non-Standard
Modern=New Ar.)
Fr. 
(French; Indo-European
Etymology)
Dialectal Study 
Needed Resources
NAr.
(Modern)
 Computerized Databases
 Modern General Dictionaries
 Specialized Dictionaries