- Jauhari
Jauhari, or Jawhari (full name Abu Nasr Isma'il ibn Hammad al Jauhari, often referred to as Johari or Johri in Arabic literature), (d. 1002 or 1010), was an
Arabia n lexicographer born at Fr?b on the borders ofTurkestan . He studied language in Fr?b andBaghdad , and later among the Arabs of the desert. He then settled inDamghan , Iran and afterwards atNrshapur , where he died by a fall from the roof of a house.His great work is the "Kitab jamharat al-lughah", an Arabic dictionary, in which the words are arranged alphabetically according to the last letter of the root. He himself had only partially finished the last recension, but the work was completed by his pupil,
Ab Isl~aq Ibrhirn ibn ~alib ul-Warraq .An edition was begun by E. Scheidius with a
Latin translation, but one part only appeared atHarderwijk (1776). The whole has been published atTabriz (1854) and atCairo (1865), and many abridgments and Persian translations have appeared; cf. C. Brockelmann, "Geschichte der arabischen Literatur" (Weimar , 1898).References
*1911
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