What others said about Arabic Read in the original
“Before the end of the Medieval period they had produced the most exhaustive and copious dictionary in any language prior to the Nineteenth Century. The truth is that in lexicography — as in many other fields — the Arabs occupy a central position both in time and space; between the Ancient World and the Modern, between the East and the West.”
John A. Haywood
20th century
British Arabist, lecturer in Arabic at Durham, author of Arabic Lexicography (1960).
In Arabic
لقد أخرج العربُ قبل نهاية العصور الوسطى أوفى معجمٍ وأغزرَه في أيّ لغةٍ قبل القرن التاسع عشر. والحقُّ أنّ العرب في المعجم — كما في ميادينَ أُخرى كثيرة — يحتلّون مكانَ المركز زماناً ومكاناً: بين العالم القديم والحديث، وبين الشرق والغرب.
Source
Arabic Lexicography: Its History, and Its Place in the General History of Lexicography, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1960, p. 2
The version in circulation
إنّ العرب في مجال المعجم يحتلّون مكان المركز، سواءً في الزمان أو المكان، بالنسبة للعالم القديم أو الحديث، وبالنسبة للشرق أو الغرب.
Usually cited from: متداولٌ بلا عزو
How it differs from the original: Faithful, but drops "as in many other fields".
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