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Philippe Cuche

فيليب كوش

Notable figure 1818–1895 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1062; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 913 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Cuche, Philippe (1818-1895)

From France; worked in Lebanon

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; Arabic–French dictionary (Beirut, 1862)

Biography

Born in Franche-Comté in France, he went to Lebanon and lived there until his death at Bikfaya. He compiled an Arabic–French dictionary printed by the Imprimerie catholique in Beirut in 1862; its second edition (1882) ran to 758 pages, and Jean-Baptiste Belot later revised and enlarged it.