Anbar University Journal of Languages & Literature

Abstract

Abstract
Ibn Mandoor included many prosodic researches in his famous Arabs Tongue. He also included good references to Rhetoric as he consulted five main dictionaries in writing his own such as 'Cultivation of El-Azhari' and "Well-wrought Dictionary of Ibn Saida", etc. He assimilated the material of these dictionaries to produce a perfect dictionary of his own.
This paper selects and arranges the terms and concepts he uniquely defines in his dictionary. It compares his definitions with those given by other dictionaries to show his ingenuity. Only very few of his definitions and concepts were later questioned but his work remains intact.