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Leopoldo de Eguílaz y Yanguas
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Leopoldo de Eguílaz y Yanguas

ليوبولدو دي إغيلاث يانغواس

Notable figure 1829–1906 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 583; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 179 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Eguilaz Yánguas, Leopoldo de (1829-1906)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; glossary of Spanish words of Eastern origin

Biography

Born in Mazarrón, Murcia, he took his doctorate at Madrid with a thesis on historical poetry and the Arabs' descriptions of al-Andalus (1864), and became dean of the Faculty of Letters at Granada. His chief work is an etymological glossary of Spanish words of Arabic and other Eastern origin (Granada, 1886); he also wrote on the values of the Arabic letters.