Searchable Online Version Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha مقاييس اللغة لابن فارس

Ibn Fāris (d. 1004 CE / 395 AH) is one of the great scholars of the Islamic world, having written important books on Arabic linguistics, poetry, the Quran and various Islamic sciences. He was Persian and came form the Caspian Sea area of Persia. His Maqāyīs al-Lugha is based on five books: Kitāb al-ʿAin of al-Khalīl bin Aḥmad, Gharīb al-Ḥadīth and al-Gharīb al-Muṣannaf of Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim bin Salām al-Harawī, Kitāb al-Manṭiq of Ibn al-Sikkīt (d. 858 CE) and Jamharat al-Lugha by Ibn Durayd (d. 933 CE / 321 AH).