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Paul Joüon

بول جوون

Notable figure 1871–1940 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 455 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Joüon, Paul (1871-1940)

From France; worked in Lebanon and Italy

Field: Semitic philology

Affiliation

Semitist; studies of Arabic word meaning and verb forms

Biography

A Semitist, he published most of his research in the Mélanges de la Faculté orientale and the Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut; his Hebrew grammar appeared in Rome (1923). On Arabic he wrote notes on Arabic philology (1908–1913), studies of Arabic word meanings (1925), a study of the meanings of the fa'ala pattern in Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic (1930–1931), and remarks on the third and seventh verb forms (1935).