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: يوسف المغربي) was a 17th-century traveler and

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoreti ...

active in

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. He is the first author to treat

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as a dialect distinct from

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, compiling an Egyptian Arabic word list, the ' (i.e. "apology of the Egyptian vernacular", literally "the lifting of the burden from the speech of the population of Egypt"), which survives in a unique manuscript kept at

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. Al-Maghribi's dictionary reflects a wider trend in early 17th century

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towards colloquial writing.

Edition

*Abdul-Salam Ahmad Awwad, ', Moscow (1968).

References

*Elisabeth Zack. Yusuf al-Maghribi's Egyptian-Arabic Word List. A Unique Manuscript in the St. Petersburg State University Library, Manuscripta orientalia ( ) 2001, vol. 7, no3, pp. 46–49. *Society and Economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1600–1900, American Univ in Cairo Press (2005), p. 34. *Paula Sanders, Creating Medieval Cairo, American Univ in Cairo Press (2007), p. 99 *Nelly Hanna, In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Syracuse University Press (2003), , chapter 5.

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