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Pedro de Alcalá

بدرو دي ألكالا

Notable figure 15th–16th century · 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: Otto Zwartjes, «More on Arabic Linguistic Terminology in Pedro de Alcalá», Historiographia Linguistica 41:2/3 (2014), pp. 247–297

Field: Lexicography and grammar

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of the Vocabulista aravigo (1505)

Biography

A Hieronymite friar in Granada, he compiled a Castilian-Arabic dictionary in Latin letters, the Vocabulista aravigo, modelled on Nebrija's dictionary and running to some 22,000 words, together with an Arte for learning the Arabic of Granada; both were printed at Granada in 1505.