Abu Nasr al-Jawhari

Abu Nasr al-Jawhari
Born
Abu Nasr Isma'il ibn Hammad al-Jawhari (or al-Jauhari)

Otrar, Transoxiana (now Kazakhstan)
Died1002 or 1008
Nishapur, Abbasid Caliphate (now Iran)
OccupationsLexicographer, writer
Known forWrote al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-Lughah

Abu Nasr Isma'il ibn Hammad al-Jawhari (ابو نصرإسماعيل بن حماد الجوهري) also known as Imam al-Jauhari (died 1002 or 1008) was a medieval Turkic lexicographer and the author of a notable Arabic dictionary al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-Lughah (الصحاح في اللغة).

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