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José Pedro Machado

جوزيه بيدرو ماشادو

Notable figure 1914–2005 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 621; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 1018 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Machado, José Pedro (1914-2005)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer of Portuguese words of Arabic origin

Biography

A pupil of David Lopes in Arabic, he lectured on Arabic philology at the Centre for Linguistic Studies in Lisbon. He studied the Arabic words that entered Portuguese and the Arab contribution to its vocabulary, and wrote on Portuguese written in Arabic script, on the Andalusi vocabulary in Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddima, and on Arabic studies in Portugal (1945).