James Redhouse
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Sir James W. Redhouse (b. 1811) authored the original and authoritative Ottoman - English dictionary. He was commissioned by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for his dictionary. His work was later used as the basis for many Turkish - English dictionaries.
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- Grammaire raisonné de la langue Ottomane (1846)
- Vade mecum of the Ottoman colloquial language (1855)
- Turkish vade mecum (1877)
- A simplified grammar of the Ottoman-Turkish (1884)
- Müntehabatı lügatı Osmaniye (1838)
- A dictionary of Arabic and Persian words used in Turkish (1853)
- A Turkish and English lexicon shewing the English significations of the Turkish terms (1890)
- Kitabı maanii lehçe li James Redhouse el İngilizi (1890)
- The Mesnevi (1881)
- A Vindication of the Ottoman Sultans title of caliph (1877)
- On the history, system and varieties of Turkish poetry (1879)
