Doha: The Cultural Village Foundation, Katara has completed seven volumes of the dictionary of daily life vocabulary and the first volume of the dictionary of places, as part of the bilingual “Qatar Cultural Encyclopedia” project.
The project includes several dictionaries, namely: Vocabulary of daily life, lexicon of places, lexicon of popular expressions, and a lexicon of popular proverbs.
Katara General Manager Prof Dr. Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti said Qatar Cultural Encyclopedia project is of special importance as it works to introduce Qatar and its tourist, cultural and heritage attractions, noting that seven volumes of the daily life vocabulary will be printed in January 2023.
It is expected that this lexicon will contain about 20 volumes, and the number of volumes of the Al Makan Dictionary is expected to be three or four.
Khaled Abdel Rahim Al Sayed, supervisor of the Qatar Cultural Encyclopedia project, said work is now underway to complete the first volume of the Dictionary of Places, which is an essential pillar in the Qatar Cultural Encyclopedia to link places in Qatar with its authentic Arab history by rooting place names from linguistic dictionaries and others.
He linked it to poetic evidence, and documented information about each place through phonetic, morphological, semantic, lexical and encyclopedic analysis.
Al Sayed said the Qatar Cultural Encyclopedia’s team consists of professors specialised in language, linguistics and literature at Qatar University, within the framework of scientific cooperation between the Katara Cultural Village Foundation and Qatar University.
Dr. Maryam Al Nuaimi, Director of the Qatar Cultural Encyclopedia Project Execution Committee, said the seven parts that were prepared from the daily life vocabulary include Arabic alphabets from 'Hamza' to 'Kha', and they are working to complete the rest of the letters.
The first volume of the dictionary has been allocated for this.
As for the dictionary of places, it consists of 7,506 entries that include all the words that make up the names of places in Qatar. Abu, Abba, Mother and includes 13 nicknames, she explained.
She said the Dictionary of Places works on surveying the environment of places in Qatar, specifying the linguistic dimension and the dialect’s relationship to Standard Arabic, after which, the encyclopedic geographical dimension, so the user of the encyclopedia can search for one place consisting of more than one word, such as “Umm Salal Muhammad,” wherein he can search for Umm Salal or Mohammed, in addition to the root search.
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