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Georges Bohas

جورج بوهاس

Notable figure b. 1946 · Source: Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, notice on Georges Bohas (2022) · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Bohas, Georges (1946-....), École normale supérieure de Lyon

Field: Arabic linguistics

Affiliation

Linguist; Matrices, étymons, racines (1997)

Biography

Professor of Arabic and Syriac linguistics and literature at the École normale supérieure in Lyon. In Matrices, étymons, racines (Leuven and Paris, 1997) he set out his theory tracing the Arabic lexicon to meaningful two-consonant etymons; with Jean-Patrick Guillaume and Djamel Eddine Kouloughli he wrote The Arabic Linguistic Tradition (London, 1990); with Guillaume he translated the Sirat Baybars into French; and he has written on Arabic metrics.