Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

Al -Khalil ibn Ahmad al - Farahidi, Abū ʿ Abd ar -Rahman (Arabic: أبو عبد الرحمن, الخليل بن أحمد الفراهيدي, DMG al -Khalil b Aḥmad al - Farahidi, Abū ʿ Abd ar -Rahman, . commonly known as al - Farahidi or al - Khalil, * 718, † 791 in Basra ) was a linguist from southern Arabia (now Oman).

His most famous work is the Kitab al-' Ayn ( كتاب العين, DMG Kitāb al - ʿ Ain ), the first dictionary of the Arabic language. It describes the still current use of the Harakat ( vowel marks of the Arabic script ), and explores the al - ʿ Arud, the study of Arabic prosody. He moved to Basra, where he died His pupils included under other Sibawayh and Al - Asma'i in the period between 777 and 791.

Kitāb al - ʿ Ain

Kitāb al - ʿ Ain, was started by al -Khalil ibn Ahmad, and probably by one of his students, al - Layth ibn al - Muzaffar, is completed. The dictionary was not arranged alphabetically, but phonetically, according to the pronunciation of the Arabic alphabet, starting with the lowest articulated in the throat letters ع ( ʿ Ain ) - hence the book title - to the last letter in its arrangement: Alif with Hamza. The book was printed by Maktabat al -Hilal, revised by Mahdi al - Makhzūmi and Ibrāhīm al- ʾ ī Samarra and appeared in eight volumes. However, there is some doubt as to whether the book in its modern edition is the original of al - Khalil, or a work that has been updated based on the original.

In addition, he collected all 15 metrics of poems and compared these with the Koran. He found not a single similarity.

• Arabist
• Linguist
• Born in the 8th century
• Died in the 8th century
• Man