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1 The Qamus al-Muhit is the first handy dictionary in Arabic, which includes only words and their definitions, eliminating the supporting examples used in such dictionaries as the Lisan and the ________.

2 The earliest in the ________ were glossaries of French, Italian or Latin words along with definitions of the foreign words in English.

3 [2] The early 2nd millennium BCE Urra=hubullu glossary is the canonical ________ version of such bilingual Sumerian wordlists.

4 Following the description in The Bilingual LSP Dictionary ________ categorize specialized dictionaries into three types.

5 [2] The first ________ dictionary, the Amarakośa, was written by Amara Sinha ca.

6 The oldest known dictionaries were ________ cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian wordlists, discovered in Ebla (modern Syria) and dated roughly 2300 BCE.

7 According to the Nihon Shoki, the first ________ was the long-lost 682 CE Niina glossary of Chinese characters.

8 Johnson's Dictionary remained the English-language standard for over 150 years, until the Oxford University Press began writing and releasing the ________ in short fascicles from 1884 onwards.

9 ________'s An American Dictionary of the English Language (prescriptive)

10 Glosary of dictionary terms by the ________

💡 Interesting Facts

  • despite plagiarizing a Chinese-French-Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences?
  • in 1887, Marius Nygaard co-published a Latin-Norwegian dictionary which is still in use?
  • the 2007 video game My Spanish Coach contains nearly 10,000 words in the game's dictionary that the player can learn?
  • the Onkochishinsho was the first Japanese language dictionary to collate words in the now-standard gojÅ«on order?
  • Quốc ngữ, the Vietnamese alphabet in general use today, was established by the 1651 trilingual Latin-Portuguese-Vietnamese dictionary Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum?
  • Ordbogen.com, the most popular online dictionary in Denmark, was relaunched after a predecessor was taken offline for over a year due to a lack of funding?
  • linguist Trygve Knudsen was co-editor of the dictionary Norsk RiksmÃ¥lsordbok from 1925 until its completion in 1957?
  • G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary?
  • John C. Cremony was a Boston newspaperman and United States Army Major who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and an account of their culture in 1869?
  • lexicographer Henry Cockeram wrote the first known English language dictionary to contain "dictionary" in the title?
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