Doha: The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies announced on Sunday the completion of the second phase of the Doha Historical Dictionary of the Arabic Language, which extends to the year 500 AH.
First launched by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies on May 25, 2013, the dictionary gives rich lexical data to understand the historical course of the Arabic language.
The second phase of the dictionary covers around 200 thousand lexical entries. It came four years following the completion of the first phase on December 10, 2018, which extended to the year 200 AH.
The third phase of the project is intended to extend to the present day.
The project represents an open record that allows to monitor the evolving meanings of Arabic words and their structure over time, and document the history and frequency of their use, and their origin, expansion and survival.
The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies announced that the completion of the third open phase has begun, during which the editing of lexical entries for words and meanings, and new terms and concepts used in Arabic texts from the beginning of the sixth century AH until the current era are underway. Work has been completed on preparing the open stage corpus, developing the computer platform, and updating the hardware and software to accommodate the huge text databases, manage them and use them in building the dictionary.
It should be noted that the lexicon has a Scientific Council comprising a group of senior linguists in the Arab world. The Council is concerned with issuing scientific and methodological decisions, deciding on linguistic and lexical issues, and approving lexicon materials.
The Scientific Council is chaired by Lexicographer Dr. Ramzi Baalbaki, and executively run since its inception by Linguist Dr. Azeddine Bouchiki, who supervises an executive body that includes a selected group of experts in language and terminology inside and outside Doha, in addition to a group of experts in computing and modern technologies.
Since its establishment, the Scientific Council has held three international scientific conferences, with the fourth to be held in the city of Meknes in the Kingdom of Morocco in May 2023. It has also held many training courses on dictionary creating and introductory lectures on the historical dictionary in a number of Arab and Western countries.
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