Al-Qāmūs Al-Muḥīṭ
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Al-Qāmūs Al-Muḥīṭ
''Al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ'' () is an Arabic dictionary compiled by the lexicographer and linguist, Abū al-Ṭāhir Majīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ya’qūb ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shīrāzī al-Fīrūzābādī (1329–1414), commonly known as Firuzabadi. Description Al-Firuzabadi originally intended to produce the largest dictionary, recording the complete language in sixty volumes. However, he ended up writing only two volumes, which nonetheless included a respectable sixty thousand entries. By being incredibly frugal with his definitions and adding a number of abbreviations to his dictionary, such as m (for ma'ruf, "known") to denote words of common usage that required no additional lexicographical description or j (for jam, "plural"), he was able to fit all these entries into such a small space. Modern Arabic dictionaries still use some of these abbreviations. The ''Qamus'' became a very popular dictionary for private use, to the point where the Arabic word for ''"Qamus ...
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Livre may refer to: Currency * French livre, one of a number of obsolete units of currency of France * Livre tournois, one particular obsolete unit of currency of France * Livre parisis, another particular obsolete unit of currency of France * French colonial livre, an obsolete unit of currency used in some French colonies * Haitian livre, an obsolete currency of Haiti * Luxembourg livre, an obsolete currency of Luxembourg * New France livre, an obsolete currency of New France * Saint Lucia livre, an obsolete currency of Saint Lucia * Jersey livre, an obsolete currency of the island of Jersey * Guadeloupe livre, an obsolete currency of Guadeloupe * Lebanese pound (), the currency of Lebanon * Syrian pound, the currency of Syria, formerly with the French name Other uses * LIVRE, a Portuguese politically green and liberal socialist political party * One of a number of units of mass; see: pound (mass) * One of a number of units of currency; see: pound (currency) * A rating of the Bra ...
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