Talk:Dictionary

Hebrew Dictionaries
In "The Age of Faith", volume IV of Will Durant's extraordinary 11 volume series "The Story of Civilization", (Chapter CHAPTER XVII The Mind and Heart of the Jew 500–1300), the author describes early development of Hebrew dictionaries and lexicographies. Here is an exerpt...

The poetry and learning of Menachem ben Saruk (910-70) attracted the attention of Hasdai ben Shaprut; the great minister called him to Cordova, and encouraged him in the task of compiling a dictionary of Biblical Hebrew. Menachem’s pupil Jehuda ibn Daud Chayuj (c. 1000) put Hebrew grammar upon a scientific basis with three Arabic works on the language of the Bible; Chayuj’s pupil Jonah ibn Janaeh (995-1050) of Saragossa surpassed him with an Arabic Book of Critique that advanced Hebrew syntax and lexicography; Judah ibn Quraish of Morocco (fl. 900) founded the comparative philology of the Semitic languages by his study of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic; the Qaraite Jew Abraham al-Fasi (i.e., of Fez, c. 980) furthered the matter with a dictionary in which all the words of the Old Testament were reduced to their roots alphabetically arranged. Nathan ben Yechiel of Rome (d. 1106) excelled all other Jewish lexicographers with his dictionary of the Talmud. In Narbonne Joseph Kimchi and his sons Moses and David (1160-1235) labored for generations in these fields; David’s Michlol, or Compendium, became for centuries the authoritative grammar of Hebrew, and was a constant aid to King James’ translators of the Bible.3 These names are chosen from a thousand.

I am not citing page numbers since they vary depending on edition (for example printed vs Kindle).

Please consider this addition.

Thank you. Robert McKercher, Toronto. BobMcK (talk) 11:41, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Link to Japanese dictionary
This page is linked to 国語辞典 (Japanese dictionary), but it it NOT appropriate for Japanese Wikipedia. Because the article here mainly describe the English dictionary; not describe "the dictionary in Japanese".

Therefore, I suggest this article should be linked to 英英辞典 (which means English dictionary) instead.

I noticed that English dictionary is Redirected here. -- Koolmint (talk) 10:49, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 October 2023
In this phrase:

between the 8th and 14th centuries CE

please remove the CE. By this point in the article, the context is clearly CE, not BCE, and anyway if this were BCE we'd say "between the 14th and 8th centuries". 123.51.107.94 (talk) 01:27, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Tollens (talk) 06:22, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Outdated lede
The current lede, "A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages..." is quite anachronistic. Dictionaries nowadays aren't limited to a listing of lexemes. Countless phrases, clauses, and even sentences are among the terms listed and defined in ordinary dictionary. Kent Dominic·(talk) 13:12, 23 April 2024 (UTC)