(MUJAM AL-JUMU`A), OR (AL-SARH AL-MUMARRED FI JUMU AL-MUFRAD) BY ITS AUTHOR (MOHAMMAD IBN AHMAD IBN OMAR IBNYAHYA AL-ALAWI) (1320-1354)=(1902-1935) INVESTIGATES AND STUDIES SOME PAGES FROM A MISSING DICTIONARY

Abstract

This Research investigates and studies some pages from a missing dictionary, tagged with (Mujam al-Jumu`a), or (Al-Sarh al-Mumarred fi Jumu al-Mufrad), by its author Al-Hadrami (Mohammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Omar IbnYahya Al-Alawi), born in (1320=1902), and died in (1354= 1935).
By contemplating the linguistic material of the dictionary and balancing it with (Al-Mujam Al-Muffassal fi Al-Jumu'a) by Emile Badi’eYaqoub, it was found that the “Al-Mujam Al-Jumu'a” surpassed its counterpart with the content breadth of the chapter that prepares for its dictionary subject, in terms of the number of pages referred to, in the index of its topics, the large quantity of its researches and its morphology issues, its linguistic origins, and the strict methodological controls that he followed in collecting his lexical material. Moreover, he exerted great efforts in investigating the potential plural words for the single words mentioned in the pages of his dictionary, whether nouns or adjectives.
It can be said that this dictionary represents, from the perspective of lexical linguistics, an advanced model of vocabulary dictionaries, which were composed in the first half of the twentieth century, in which its author took a unique approach, in which none of the lexicographers preceded him. He devoted it to researching the plural singular terms used in the Arabic language.