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Searchable Online Version Al-Ṣāḥib bin ʿAbbād, Al-Muḥīṭ fī l-Lugha المحيط في اللغة للصاحب بن عباد

Al-Ṣāḥib bin ʿAbbād (d. c. 995 CE / 385 AH) was a Persian Shiite scholar, poet and grand vizier of the Buyid Dyansty, known as one of the greatest scholars of his age. His Muḥīṭ (not to be confused with Firuzabadi's Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ) is meant as a complete dictionary of Standard Arabic, comprising 1300 pages. The entries are arranged in the manner of al-Khalīl's Kitāb al-ʿAin.

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