Fi al-Tarib wa al-Muarrab wa huwa al-Maruf bi Hashiyat Ibn Bari

Fī al-Taʿrīb wa-l-Muʿarrab (Arabic: في التعريب والمعرب, "On Arabization and Arabicized Words"), commonly known as Ḥāshiyat Ibn Barrī ("The Gloss of Ibn Barrī"), is a critical linguistic commentary and supplement composed by the Egyptian grammarian and lexicographer Ibn Barrī (499–582 AH / 1106–1186 CE) Fi al-Tarib wa al-Muarrab…+1. The treatise is an analytical work of marginalia and emendations on al-Muʿarrab min al-Kalām al-Aʿjamī, the foundational dictionary of loanwords by Abū Manṣūr al-Jawālīqī (466–540 AH) Fi al-Tarib wa al-Muarrab…+1.

Purpose and Content

The work was composed as a series of critical observations (istidrākāt) and explanatory glosses on al-Jawālīqī's dictionary of foreign words adopted into Arabic Fi al-Tarib wa al-Muarrab…+1. Ibn Barrī examines the phonological and morphological principles governing how the early Arabs modified non-Arabic vocabulary to fit Arabic speech patterns Fi al-Tarib wa al-Muarrab…+1.

At the opening of the text, Ibn Barrī classifies the letters involved in phonetic substitution (ibdāl) into two categories:

• Five consonants where substitution occurs systematically: kāf, jīm, qāf, bāʾ, and fāʾ Fi al-Tarib wa al-Muarrab….
• Five consonants where substitution is non-systematic: sīn, shīn, ʿayn, lām, and zāy Fi al-Tarib wa al-Muarrab….

Throughout the work, Ibn Barrī corrects transmission errors, identifies transmission paths and unnamed authorities cited in al-Jawālīqī's chains of narration, provides poetic attestations (shawāhid), and refines vocalizations and etymological explanations Fi al-Tarib wa al-Muarrab…+1.

Influence and Editions

Ibn Barrī's glosses on al-Jawālīqī's work served as a standard reference for later lexicographers and philologists investigating foreign loanwords in Arabic literature and religious texts Mujam al-Muallifin+1. His observations are frequently cited in later lexicons, including Murtaḍā al-Zabīdī's Tāj al-ʿArūs Taj al-Arus min Jawahir a…+1.

A manuscript of the work is preserved in the El Escorial library Mujaz Dairat al-Maarif al…. The text was edited by Ibrāhīm al-Sāmarrāʾī and published under the title Fī al-Taʿrīb wa-l-Muʿarrab wa-Huwa al-Maʿrūf bi-Ḥāshiyat Ibn Barrī by Muʾassasat al-Risālah in Beirut (1405 AH / 1985 CE) Manhaj al-Shaykh 'Abd al-…+1.