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David Ayalon

دافيد أيالون

Notable figure 1914–1998 · 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. 44 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Ayalon, David (1914-1998), Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Co-editor of a large Hebrew-Arabic dictionary (1947)

Biography

A professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, best known for his work on the Mamluks. With Pesach Shinar he directed a large Hebrew-Arabic dictionary published in 1947; earlier, under his original name David Neustadt, he helped gather the Arabic material for the basic word list of the Arabic daily press (Jerusalem, 1940). The word list was prepared with Moshe Brill (1910–1943), a statistical psychologist, and appeared under both names.