Author: Edward William Lane

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780267958917

Excerpt from An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived From the Best and the Most Copious Eastern Sources, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising a Very Large Collection of Words and Significations Omitted in the Kamoos; Part 7 Restricting myself, therefore, to articles completed by Mr. Lane, I first instituted a minute survey of the existing ms. With a View to ascertaining its deficiencies. Since some articles were written thirty years earlier than others it was natural to expect some inequality in the work, and the suspicion was increased by the discovery that whereas Mr. Lane was in the habit of cutting out articles from the later volumes of his ms. And sending them unaltered to the printers, be generally copied out the articles occurring in the earlier volumes. Knowing, however, the finality which characterized my Uncle's work, and also the almost fastidious cleanness which he always desired in his copy, I was led to believe that the practice of rewriting his earlier articles was due more to his consideration for the compositor than to any variation in his scholarship. A detailed investigation proved the correctness of this belief. The copied articles differ in no important particular from the original ms. A few changes in abbreviations and punctuation, with a View to conciseness, had to be made in order to render the earlier articles con sistent with the later. Sometimes a paragraph was rearranged, but it was a rare case to find any addition or any correction of moment. The only deficiency was in the omission of the readings of the 'obah, the ms. Of which was acquired later than the composition of the greater part of the Lexicon: but as the 'obab seldom offers a new interpretation, and is generally useful only as confirming other authorities, this omission is not of serious importance. A few articles, chiefly those ending in a were taken down in the order of the various native lexicons and left unarranged. These I have of course arranged. The Slight alterations in abbreviations and punctuation necessary to make the earlier articles consistent with the later I have made. Beyond these changes, I have in no way interfered with my Uncle's ms., unless the cor rection of obvious clerical errors and the insertion of a few needful cross-references can be termed interference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.