al-Lughāt

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al-Lughāt is a significant early Arabic linguistic work by the grammarian Al-Farrāʾ, focusing on vocabulary, dialectal usage, and philological analysis.

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instanceOf Arabic linguistic work
philological treatise
aimsTo clarify meanings of Arabic words
document dialectal variants
support grammatical argumentation
analyzes Qurʾānic linguistic forms
lexical variants
tribal dialects
associatedWith Kufan school of grammar NERFINISHED
author Al-Farrāʾ NERFINISHED
century 2nd century AH
8th–9th century CE
culturalContext classical Arabic philology
field Arabic linguistics
philology
focusesOn Arabic vocabulary
dialectal usage
philological analysis
genre lexicographical work
historicalSignificance one of the early systematic treatments of Arabic vocabulary and dialects
influenced later Arabic grammatical theory
later Arabic lexicography
language Arabic NERFINISHED
methodology citation of Bedouin speech
comparison of dialectal forms
philological commentary
period early Abbasid period
regionOfOrigin Iraq NERFINISHED
relatedTo Arabic grammar (naḥw)
Arabic lexicography (lugha)
Qurʾānic exegesis
religiousContext Islamic scholarly tradition
scholarlyDiscipline ʿilm al-lugha
script Arabic script
status early authoritative source on Arabic vocabulary
studiedBy scholars of Arabic language history
studiedIn Islamic studies
subjectMatter Arabic lexicon
dialectal differences in Arabic
usage of rare words
tradition Basran–Kufan grammatical tradition
usedIn classical Arabic grammatical studies
writtenBy Yaḥyā ibn Ziyād al-Farrāʾ NERFINISHED

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Al-Farrāʾ notableWork al-Lughāt