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Francisco Javier Simonet
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Francisco Javier Simonet

فرانسيسكو خافيير سيمونيه

Notable figure 1829–1897 · 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, pp. 310, 406, 410 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Francisco Javier Simonet (1829-1897)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Philologist; author of a glossary of Mozarabic words (1888)

Biography

Born in Málaga, he taught Arabic at the University of Granada. He compiled the Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (Madrid 1888), gathering the Romance words that entered the Arabic of al-Andalus.