A leaf from one of his manuscripts
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Taken from: كتاب الصحاح تاج اللغة وصحاح العربية by الجوهري، أبو نصر al-maktaba.org
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Abu Nasr Isma'il ibn Hammad al-Jawhari or al-Jauhari (d.1002 or 1008) was a Turkic lexicographer and the author of a notable Arabic dictionary. He was born in Farab in Transoxiana. He studied in Baghdad, settling finally at Nishapur. Taj al-Lugha wa Sihah al-Arabiya: The Crown of Language and the Correct Arabic; It contains about 40,000 dictionary entries. Al-Jawhari uses an alphabetical ordering system with the last letter of a word's root being the first ordering criterion. His knowledge of East Africa is very limited.
Vol2 p320
[Zeng] al Zanji: A race of Sudan, they are al Zanuy. Abu Amr said: zinj wazunjun, wazanji and wazanji
Vol2 p332
Ivory: the bone of the elephant, it is called: Aaj.
Sibawayh (1)) said: It consists of Aaj and eawajin
Vol2 p364
Rahh: Having, in the sole of his foot, no hollow part that does not touch the ground, as is the case in the feet of the Zinj. Flatfoot....
Vol3 p490
Al-Sind (2): A country, it is said: Sindi, and the community, like a Zinji and Wazinju
Vol3 p557R
And the Jews: the Jews. They chose Jewish and Jews,
But they deleted J as they said Zunja and Wazunjun,
Vol3 p557V
Hind: the name of the country, and also the Hindi and Wahindi, like the words Zanji and Wazanjun
Vol3 p799
And the moon starts with new moon; and the moon has several kinds of red and reds.
Or the word is a plural moon; like Rum (3) Warum, Wazanji Wazinjun
Vol4 p1129
Ztata al-Zut (4): A race of people such as the Zut, as al-Zunj and Wazanji, Walrum Warumi
Vol5 p1369
The giraffe: the name of a group.
Al-Qanani said to him with extreme emphasis.
Walzurafata: Groups.
The giraffe to open the zay and to include it,
And it is called in Persian: aishtar kawplinak (5)
Vol6 p 1797
And the tribe: the congregation shall be from three onward of various people, such as the Romans, the Zinj, and the Arabs: and the assembly is before.
Vol6 p1939
The Romans were born of the Roman son of Jesus. It is said: Ruma (3) and Warumun like Zunji and Wazunj
(1) maybe: Sibawayh: Al Kitab (The Book) (d796); First Book on Arab Grammar.
(2) now part of Pakistan.
(3) Rome
(4) Zutt: tribe from north-west India.
(5) Usturgawpalang: persian name for giraffe; camel-ox-leopard (ustur-gaw-palang). The animal that looks like the cross of these three animals. This Persian name is repeated among many others: Ibn al-Fakih al Hamadhani (903); Musa Ud-Damiri (d1405); Zad Sparam (9th); Ibn Bakhtishu (1295); Al-Raghib al-Isfahani (1109); Hassan Bar Bahlul (10th); Mohammad ebn Mahmud ebn Ahmad Tusi (1160); Jahiz's Kitab al-Hayawan (869); Tha'alibi (d1038); Ibn Manzur (1290); Ibn Qutayba (880).