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Jan Hoogland

يان هوخلاند

Notable figure b. 1957 · Source: Arabic for Nerds, interview with Jan Hoogland · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Hoogland, Jan (1957-....), teaches Arabic at the University of Nijmegen

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; Arabic–Dutch dictionary (2003)

Biography

Born in Rotterdam, he taught Arabic at Radboud University Nijmegen from 1983 to 2018. With Kees Versteegh and Manfred Woidich he edited the two-volume Woordenboek Arabisch-Nederlands / Nederlands-Arabisch (Amsterdam, 2003; 2nd ed. 2009), and most of the Arabic–English half of the Oxford Arabic Dictionary (2014) derives from the Nijmegen database he built. He has also compiled dictionaries of Moroccan Arabic and Dutch.