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Jean-Baptiste Belot

جان باتيست بيلو

Notable figure 1822–1904 · 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. 38 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Belot, Jean-Baptiste (1822-1904)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of an Arabic-French vocabulary (1883)

Biography

A French Jesuit, he lived in Beirut and worked at its Catholic Press. He compiled al-Faraʾid al-durriyya, a Vocabulaire arabe-français for students (Beirut 1883), reprinted many times, and then a Dictionnaire français-arabe (Beirut 1890).