''Taj al-'Arus min Jawahir al-Qamus'' (, short title ''Taj al-'Arus;'' "The Bride's Crown from the Pearls of al-Qāmūs") is an Arabic language dictionary written by the

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scholar

Murtada al-Zabidi Al-Murtaḍá al-Husaynī al-Zabīdī (), or Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī (1732–1790 / 1145–1205 AH), also known as Murtada al-Zabidi, was an Indian Sunni polymath based in Cairo. He was a Hanafi scholar, hadith special ...

(1732–1790), one of the foremost

philologists Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

of the Arab post-classical era. The monumental dictionary contains around 120,000 definitions, and is an expansion of Fairuzabadi's earlier ''Qamus al-Muhit'' and

Ibn Manzur Muhammad ibn Mukarram ibn Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Manzūr al-Ansārī al-Ifrīqī al-Misrī al-Khazrajī () also known as Ibn Manẓūr () (June–July 1233 – December 1311/January 1312) was an Arab lexicographer of the Arabic language and author of ...

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Lisan al-Arab ''Lisān al-ʿArab'' () is a dictionary of Arabic completed by Ibn Manzur in 1290. History Ibn Manzur's objective in this project was to reïndex and reproduce the contents of previous works to facilitate readers' use of and access to them. ...

''. It is considered the largest Arabic dictionary ever written in history. Begun in 1760, when al-Zabidi was 29 years old, the dictionary took him fourteen years to complete; he concluded it on the eighth of September 1774. The dictionary's introduction included a lengthy commentary on the dictionary of Fairuzabadi. Zabidi's chose a feminine subject in the title of his dictionary in commemoration of his deceased wife; he made use of antecedents, particularly Fairuzabadi's ''Qamus'' and

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'', and undertook multiple travels and meetings to validate his work. He expanded previous word definitions, added new entries, and corrected errors found in previous lexicographic works. Zabidi's extensive bibliography numbered 115 consulted sources, including ones on ''

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'' and history. He also gave credit to previously unnamed authors.

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