Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari

Works

• Taj al-Lugha wa Sihah al-Arabiya "The Crown of Language and the Correct Arabic" - His magnum opus dictionary of Arabic; often abbreviated as al-Sihah fi al-Lugha, "The Correct Language", and al-Sihah. It contains about 40,000 dictionary entries. Written in Nishapur, it was incomplete at his death and completed by a student. Al-Jawhari uses an alphabetical ordering system with the last letter of a word's root being the first ordering criterion. Al-Sihah is a principal Arabic dictionary of the medieval era and later compilers of Arabic dictionaries incorporated its material. Over the centuries several abridgements and elaborations in Arabic were produced and a large portion was copied into the huge 13th century dictionary compilation Lisan al-Arab; published online at http://www.baheth.info. A fully searchable online edition available at .
• edition begun by E. Scheidius with a Latin translation, but one part only appeared at Harderwijk
• Complete edition, Tabriz
• Complete edition, Cairo
• many abridged and Persian language editions.