- Title: محيط المحيط Muhit al-Muhit
- Author: بطرس البستاني Butrus al-Bustani
- Lebanese Arabic dictionary Book in 2 volumes. قاموس مطول للغة العربية
- Published by: --
- Year: 1867/1870
- Size 28cm x 19cm. approx. 11x7 1/2"
- Number of pages: Vol I: 1228 pp. Vol. II: 1229-2308
- Description: 2 complete Vol. Original red leather boards. Raised bands and spine lettered in gilt. Decorative borders in blind to boards.
- Condition: Good. The book features a richly worn leather cover, showing significant signs of age and use. The leather has developed a deep, characteristic patina, with visible scuffs, scratches, and slight cracking along the spine and edges. The corners are worn, and some small areas of the leather have flaked off, revealing the underlying board. There is some discoloration on the cover, and the leather shows evidence of past moisture exposure, with faint water stains. The text block is still firmly attached. Water damage to the front fore-edges and some page margins. The spine has some fading and a few small cracks, but the book is still structurally sound. Semi-hinged at the front. Previous owner's inscription on the front flyleaf. Pages are well preserved and internally clean.
Note: Muhit Al-Muhit is considered by modern lexicographers as a seminal step in the transition from classical to modern Arabic. Bustani introduced new lexical items in Muhit Al-Muhit, expanded the meaning of others, and added brief modern examples of word uses. He also removed or reduced features typical to classical Arabic lexicography such as using Quranic and poetic verses as references to lexicographical use. Wiki
محيط المحيط هو أول معجم أنتجه الإنجيليون في أواسط القرن التاسع عشر. وقام بهذا الجهد بطرس البستاني. ونال عليه الوسام المجيدي العثماني.
يعد محيط المحيط أول معجم ألفه اليسوعيون لبطرس البستاني (1300 -1883)، يحتوي على ما في القاموس المحيط لـ الفيروزآبادي، وعلى زيادات كثيرة. وقد حافظ المؤلف على عبارات الفيروزآبادي في تفسير الكثير من الألفاظ، ثم زاد أشياء وحذف أخرى وتصرف في أمور. وقد نبه على مصدر بعض زياداته.
نُشر القاموس في بيروت في جزأين، صدر الأول سنة 1867م، والثاني سنة 1870م. Wiki