The Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary by Al-Malik Al-Afḍal - An Annotated Edition with a Linguistic Introduction and a Lexical Index

The Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary by al-Malik al-Afḍal by Maria Bulakh and Leonid Kogan is an edition of a unique monument of Arabic lexicography, comprising 475 Arabic lexemes translated into several Ethiopian idioms in a late-fourteenth century manuscript from a private Yemeni collection.

About the author

Maria Bulakh, Ph.D. (2005), Russian State University for the Humanities, is a lecturer at the Institute for Oriental and Classical studies, RSUH. Her main areas of research are comparative Semitics (with a focus on the Ethio-Semitic languages), Soqotri language and folklore, typology of semantic shifts, language description.

Leonid Kogan, Ph.D. (2001), Russian State University for the Humanities, is Head of the Ancient Near Eastern Department at RSUH. He has published extensively on Akkadian and Semitic linguistics, including Genealogical Classification of Semitic (de Gruyter, 2015) and Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, Volume One (Brill, 2014, in collaboration).

Product details

• Authors: Maria Bulakh, Leonid Kogan
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2016
• EAN: 9789004321465
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32146-5
• No. of pages: 500
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 839 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries