Abcarius (also Abkariyus, Abgarios) was the surname of an

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family of intellectuals. *Yaqub Abcarius (born Hagop Abcarian (, b. 1781, Aksehir, Turkey; died 1845, Beirut, Lebanon (Syria)) was a bishop and public figure. *His son, (1826-1885) was an author of poems and historical works. He studied in

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, published the "Story of Shahriar Lion-King" epos (1880), "Classification of Arabian poets", "Unusual events in Mountainous Lebanon in 1860" and other books. *His younger son, {{ill, Yuhanna (Hovhannes(John)) Abcarius, hy, Յուհաննա Աբգարիոս (1832-1886) was a translator at the English embassy in

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, wrote stories and novels in Arabic, wrote "Abcarius' English-Arabic Dictionary" (1st edition pub. 1883, 605 pp.) and edited an Armenian-Arabic dictionary (published posthumously in 1887).

Sources

*''Armenian Concise Encyclopedia'', Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian,

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