Taj al-'Arus min Jawahir al-Qamus

Taj al-'Arus min Jawahir al-Qamus (Arabic: تاج العروس من جواهر القاموس, romanized: Tāj al-ʿArūs min Jawāhir al-Qāmūs, short title Taj al-'Arus; "The Bride's Crown from the Pearls of al-Qāmūs") is an Arabic language dictionary written by the Egyptian scholar Murtada al-Zabidi (1732–1790), one of the foremost philologists of the Arab post-classical era. The monumental dictionary contains around 120,000 definitions, and is an expansion of Fairuzabadi's earlier Qamus al-Muhit and Ibn Manzur's Lisan al-Arab.^[1] It is considered the largest Arabic dictionary ever written in history.^[2]

Begun in 1760, when al-Zabidi was 29 years old, the dictionary took him fourteen years to complete; he concluded it on the eighth of September 1774.^[1] The dictionary's introduction included a lengthy commentary on the dictionary of Fairuzabadi.^[1][3]

Zabidi's chose a feminine subject in the title of his dictionary in commemoration of his deceased wife; he made use of antecedents, particularly Fairuzabadi's Qamus and Ibn Manzur's Lisan al-Arab, and undertook multiple travels and meetings to validate his work.^[4] He expanded previous word definitions, added new entries, and corrected errors found in previous lexicographic works.^[5]

Zabidi's extensive bibliography numbered 115 consulted sources, including ones on Hadith and history. He also gave credit to previously^[when?] unnamed authors.^[6]