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George Percy Badger

جورج برسي بادجر

Notable figure 1815–1888 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, p. 39 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: George Percy Badger (1815-1888)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of An English-Arabic Lexicon (1881)

Biography

Born in Chelmsford, he lived in Malta, India and the Middle East. He compiled An English-Arabic Lexicon (London 1881), 1,244 pages drawing on the dictionaries and on newer coinages, with an Arabic preface by Rizqallah Hassun.