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Antoine-Paulin Pihan

أنطوان بولان بيهان

Notable figure 1810–1879 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 190; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 343 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Pihan, Antoine Paulin (1810-1879)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; glossary of French words from Arabic (1847)

Biography

A compositor of oriental type at the Imprimerie nationale in Paris, he studied Arabic, Persian and Turkish. He compiled the Glossaire des mots français tirés de l'arabe, du persan et du turc (Paris 1847), a study of the scripts of the Arabs, Persians and Turks (1856), and another of the numeral signs of the peoples of the East (1860).