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Moshe Piamenta

موشيه بيامنتا

Notable figure 1921–2012 · Source: Jewish Virtual Library, "Piamenta, Moshe" (from Encyclopaedia Judaica) · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Piamenta, Moshe (1921-2012)

Field: Dialects and lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic

Biography

Professor of Arabic language and literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1959–1989), he worked on spoken Arabic. He wrote on tenses, aspects and moods in the Arabic dialect of Jerusalem (1964) and on the syntax of Palestinian Arabic, compiled Islam in Everyday Arabic Speech (Leiden, 1979), and then the Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic in two volumes (Leiden, 1990–1991), a supplement to the dictionaries for the vocabulary of Yemen.