بنية النص في المعاجم المختصرة

Abstract EN

The short lexical text differs according to the requirements of culture, methodology and objectives.

In the history of Arabic language, some dictionaries of Arabic have been shortened more than ten times, e.g.

the dictionary of as-Sihah has seventeen short dictionaries.

These short dictionaries have some characteristics that diserve to be examined.

We will try to discuss the way by which the original dictionary has been shortened, showing the changes that have taken place during this process.

What has been deleted, shortened or added and what are the justifications for each case.

We will try also to show the methodology adopted by the new author.

We have examined in the study three short dictionaries of al-‘Ayn by al-Khalil, two short dictionaries of as-Sihah by al-Gawhari and the short dictionary, al-Wassit, by the Arabic Academy of Cairo.