KHALIL See also:

• IBN

IBN AHMAD [See also:

• ABU

ABU `ABDURRAH*,2AN UL-KHALIL IBN AHMAD IBN `AMR IBN TAMIM] (718-791)  , Arabian philologist, was a'native of See also:

• OMAN

Oman . He was distinguished for having written the first Arabic See also:

• DICTIONARY

dictionary and for having first classified the Arabic metres and laid down their rules . He was also a poet, and lived the ascetic See also:

• LIFE

life of a poor student . His grammatical See also:

• WORK

work was carried on by his See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil See also:

• SIBAWAIHI [Abu Bishr, or Abu-1 Hasan`Amr ibn`Uthman ibn Qanbar, known as SIBAWAIHI or SIBUY1] (c. 753-793)

Sibawaihi . The dictionary known as the Kitab-ul-'See also:

• AIN

Ain is ascribed, at least in its inception, to Khalil . It was probably finished by one of his pupils and was not known in See also:

• BAGDAD, or BAGHDAD

Bagdad until 862 . The words were not arranged in alphabetical See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order but according to physiological principles, beginning with `Ain and ending with Ya . The work seems to have been in existence as See also:

• LATE

late as the 14th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, but is now only known from extracts in See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript . Various grammatical See also:

• WORKS

works are ascribed to Khalil, but their authenticity seems doubtful; cf . C . Brockelmann, Gesch. der arabischen Literatur, i. See also:

• LOO (formerly called " Lanterloo," Fr. lanturlu, the refrain of a popular 17th-century song)

loo (See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar, 1898) . (G .

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