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Willem Herman Engelmann

فيلم هيرمان إنجلمان

Notable figure 1836–1868 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 657; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 184 · Second source: Yale LUX, library authority record: Engelmann, Willem Herman

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; glossary of Spanish words of Arabic origin

Biography

In Leiden he published the Diwan of al-Hadira with a Latin translation (1858). He then compiled a glossary of Spanish and Portuguese words taken from Arabic, which Dozy revised and greatly enlarged for its second edition (Leiden, 1869), a book of 424 pages that is still a reference on Arabic loanwords in the Iberian languages.