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May 25, 2021 · 5.6G. 20 volumes ; 32 cm. The Oxford English Dictionary provides definitions of approximately 290,500 English words, arranged alphabetically in twenty volumes, with cross-references, etymologies, and pronunciation keys, and includes a bibliography. 1998 reprint. Includes bibliographical references (v. 20, pages 1-143 (2nd group))
Abu ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Amr ibn Tammām al-Farāhīdī al-Azdī al-Yaḥmadī (Arabic: أبو عبد الرحمن الخليل بن أحمد بن عمرو بن تمام الفراهيدي الأزدي اليحمدي; 718 – 786 CE), known as al-Farāhīdī, [n 1] or al-Khalīl, was an Arab philologist, lexicographer and leading grammarian of Basra in Iraq.
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Kitāb al-ʿAyn (Arabic: كتاب العين) is the first Arabic language dictionary and one of the earliest known dictionaries of any language. [1][2][3][4] It was compiled in the eighth century by al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi. The letter ayn (ع) of the dictionary's title is regarded as phonetically the deepest letter in the Arabic alphabet.
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noun [C] ɑ ə ɑ ɑ a South African person whose family were originally Dutch and whose first language is Afrikaans Afro HAIR / f.r / /ro / noun [C] plural Afros a way of əυ υ arranging the hair so that it is very thick, curly and has. rounded shape, especially like that of some black people.
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