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On the Arab lexicons:
“In the aggregate of these works, with all the strictness that is observed in legal proceedings, as will presently be shown, the utmost care and research have been employed to embody everything that could be preserved or recovered of the classical language; the result being a collection of such authority, such exactness, and such copiousness, as we do not find to have been approached in the case of any other language after its corruption or decay. The classical language they called, by reason of its incomparable excellence, “el-loghah,” or “the language.””
Edward William Lane
1801–1876
English Arabist, author of the great «Arabic-English Lexicon».
In Arabic
وفي مجموع هذه المؤلّفات بُذلت أقصى العناية والبحث — بكلّ ما يُراعى في إجراءات القضاء من صرامة، كما سيتبيّن بعد قليل — لجمعِ كلِّ ما أمكن حفظُه أو استردادُه من اللغة الفصحى؛ فكانت الثمرةُ مجموعةً بلغت من الحجّيّة والدقّة والسعة ما لا نجد أنّ لغةً أخرى قاربَتْه بعد أن أصابها الفسادُ أو الاضمحلال. وكانوا يسمّون اللغةَ الفصحى، لفضلِها الذي لا يُضاهى، «اللغة».
Source
An Arabic-English Lexicon, Book I, Part 1, Preface, London: Williams and Norgate, 1863, p. viii
'These works' are the Arab lexicons, named in the sentence before.
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