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al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

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al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (الخليل بن أحمد الفراهيدي) was an 8th-century Arab philologist, lexicographer, and leading grammarian from Basra, Iraq. He is renowned for creating the first Arabic dictionary, “Kitab al-‘Ayn,