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Gabriel Ferrand
Image: From Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli, al-Aʿlam, 2nd ed. (1958), vol. 2, p. 115, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Gabriel Ferrand

غابرييل فيران

Notable figure 1864–1935 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), p. 38 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Ferrand, Gabriel (1864-1935)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Supplement to the Arabic lexicons; nautical texts

Biography

A pupil of René Basset, he served as a French consular officer in the East. The thesis lists him among the French lexical contributors for a supplement to the Arabic dictionaries. He published the nautical treatises of Ibn Majid and Sulayman al-Mahri in facsimile from the Paris manuscripts, translated them and explained their technical vocabulary, a key source for Arabic seafaring terms.