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Les Dialectes Néo-Araméens de Salamas Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 332
ISBN: 9781593337872
Pub Date: 02 Apr 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Grammars Archive
Description:
This specialized study by renowned linguist Rubens Duval brings together several grammatical studies between its covers. For the most part this intriguing volume is an exploration of the dialects of Neo-Aramaic of Salmas in the area of Azerbaijan and northwest Iran. Duval transcribed in handwritten, Roman characters, the aural information he received in the region from Syrian Christians and Jews.
The Foreign Vocabulary of the Quran Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 323
ISBN: 9781593337513
Pub Date: 02 Apr 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Grammars Archive
Description:
This handbook of foreign loan words in the Arabic of the Quran is set up in dictionary format. Each word is given in Arabic and in transliteration, followed by an extensive definition. As useful today as when it was first published, this volume will be welcomed by students of Arabic and especially those who are concerned with its relationship to foreign languages.
Bar Ali (Isho): The Syriac-Arabic Glosses Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 499
ISBN: 9781593338343
Pub Date: 12 Mar 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
This edition of the Syriac-Arabic glosses of Isho Bar Ali is a publication difficult to locate. These glosses are located in the second part of Bar Ali’s lexicon, as the first part had been previously published. Bar Ali, a physician as well as a lexicographer, produced this noted Syriac-Arabic dictionary showing the meanings of Syriac words in Arabic.
On Joanna Russ Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780819569028
Pub Date: 02 Mar 2009
Description:
Joanna Russ, a feminist writer best known for The Female Man (1975), has produced a fierce, intense body of fiction and essays whose influence has been wide-ranging and complex. Her many publications include How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983), and she has won both of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo. The essays in this volume examine every aspect of Russ's body of work and provide a critical assessment that is long overdue.
The Farhang I Rashidi Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 711
ISBN: 9781593339166
Pub Date: 27 Feb 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
The famous Persian dictionary of Sayyid Abdurrashid, now quite difficult to locate, is an historic dictionary to which linguists still make reference. The Farhang I Rashidi was compiled by the Persian scholar Abd ur-Rashid bin Abd ul-Ghafur Husaini al-Madani al-Tattawi (d. 1653) who lived in Thatta, now the Sindh province of Pakistan.
Century Dictionary (Vol 1) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 900
ISBN: 9781593333775
Pub Date: 16 Feb 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.
Century Dictionary (Vol 10) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 414
ISBN: 9781593333867
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.
Century Dictionary (Vol 11) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 768
ISBN: 9781593333874
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.
Century Dictionary (Vol 12) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 722
ISBN: 9781593333881
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.
Century Dictionary (Vol 2) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 902
ISBN: 9781593333782
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.
Century Dictionary (Vol 3) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 900
ISBN: 9781593333799
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.
Century Dictionary (Vol 4) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 892
ISBN: 9781593333805
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.
Century Dictionary (Vol 5) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 886
ISBN: 9781593333812
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.
Century Dictionary (Vol 6) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 886
ISBN: 9781593333829
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.
Century Dictionary (Vol 7) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 898
ISBN: 9781593333836
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.
Century Dictionary (Vol 8) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 874
ISBN: 9781593333843
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting quotations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense.