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Taco Roorda
Image: Gerrit Roorda Tacosz. (1835–1890), CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Taco Roorda

تاكو رووردا

Notable figure 1801–1874 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 658; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 625 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Roorda, Taco (1801-1874)

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Grammarian; Latin Arabic grammar with a glossary (1835)

Biography

As a young man he published a study of the life of Ahmad ibn Tulun (1825). He then wrote a grammar of Arabic with a Latin commentary, with selected illustrative texts and a glossary of their words (1835), and with Juynboll he edited the Orientalia collection (1840–1846).