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Daniel Reig

دانيال ريغ

Notable figure 1929–2007 · 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. 39 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Reig, Daniel (1929-2007), agrégé in Arabic, professor at the École normale supérieure

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; As-Sabil Arabic-French dictionary (1983)

Biography

Agrégé in Arabic language and literature and a professor at the École normale supérieure in Paris, he compiled As-Sabil, an Arabic-French and French-Arabic dictionary published by Larousse in 1983 and revised in later editions; it became one of the most used dictionaries among learners of Arabic in France.