The Rasulid Hexaglot is a 14th-century glossary written by or prepared for the Yemeni King
Al-Afdal al-Abbas Al-Afdal al-Abbas ( ar, الأفضل العباس; r. 1363–1377) was a ruler of Yemen and a member of the Rasulid dynasty.
He was the son and successor of sultan al-Mujahid Ali. He produced a multilingual "dictionary" defining terms in Arabic, ...
(r. 1363–1377), containing words in six languages:
Arabic,
Persian,
Turkic
Turkic may refer to:
* anything related to the country of Turkey
* Turkic languages, a language family of at least thirty-five documented languages
** Turkic alphabets (disambiguation)
** Turkish language, the most widely spoken Turkic language
* ...
,
Greek,
Armenian, and
Mongolian. Although produced in Yemen, the Rasulid Hexaglot in many respect was a product of the Eurasian world that was shaped by the Mongol conquest. The Mongols brought East and West Asia into closer contact which encouraged the study of languages.
Rasulid Hexaglot
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References
Bibliography
* P. B. Golden, ed., ''The King’s Dictionary: The Rasūlid Hexaglot – Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongol'', tr. T. Halasi- Kun, P. B. Golden, L. Ligeti, and E. Schütz, HO VIII/4, Leiden, 2000.
External links
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Multilingual dictionaries
Arabic dictionaries
Mongolian dictionaries
Turkish dictionaries
Medieval Greek
Persian dictionaries
Armenian dictionaries
Rasulid dynasty
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