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Léon and Henri Hélot

ليون وهنري هيلو

Notable figure 19th century · 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. 208 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, catalogue record: L. et H. Hélot, Dictionnaire de poche français-arabe et arabe-français (Paris: Dubos frères, 1847)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Authors of a French–Arabic pocket dictionary (1847)

Biography

Léon Hélot and Henri Hélot together compiled a French–Arabic and Arabic–French pocket dictionary for soldiers, travellers and merchants in Africa, printed in Paris in 1847 and again in 1858, and also in Algiers. The thesis counts it among the modern dictionaries Dozy drew on for the Supplément, since they help with the language of the Middle Ages.