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Francisco Cañes

فرانسيسكو كانيس

Notable figure 1729–1795 · 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. 35 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Francisco Cañes (1729-1795)

Field: Lexicography and grammar

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of a Spanish-Latin-Arabic dictionary

Biography

A Spanish Franciscan who learned Arabic in Damascus, he wrote a Gramática arábigo-española (Madrid 1775) and compiled a three-volume Diccionario español-latino-arábigo (Madrid 1787).