(1) Among his works that are currently in print and widely circulated are: al-Wafi fi al-‘Arud wa-l-Qawafi (Prosody and Rhyme), Sharh al-Mufaddaliyyat, Sharh al-Qasaid al-‘Ashr, and Sharh al-Maqsura of Ibn Durayd. (2) The word is written with shin and a dotted dhal and means “joy, delight.” Ibn Dawud al-Misri was one of the leading grammarians; his useful writings include a commentary on al-Zajjaji’s al-Jumal and a commentary on Ibn al-Sarraj’s Kitab al-Usul. He died in 469/1076. His biography appears above, vol. 18, no. 225. (3) I.e. “he plays with his tongue.” Grammarians state that when an adjective follows the pattern fa‘lah with a mobile middle consonant, it describes the doer of the action, e.g. hadhrah (excessive talker), talqah (one who divorces readily), hamzah (one who assaults), sar‘ah (a fighter, fault-finder). If the middle consonant of fa‘lah is silent, the form denotes the object of the action: rajul la‘nah (a man whom people curse); but if he is the one who curses, one says la‘nah. Likewise: rajul sabbah (censured by people) versus sabbah (one who censures others); and similarly with haz’ah/haz’ah (object/agent of mockery), sakhrah/sakhrah (object/agent of ridicule), dahkah/dahkah (laughed at/laughing), khud‘ah/khud‘ah (deceived/deceiving). (4) The entire passage, exactly as found in al-Sam‘ani’s Dhayl and quoted by Yaqut in Mu‘jam al-Udaba, 20/27: al-Sam‘ani said, “I heard Abu Mansur Muhammad b. Abd al-Malik b. al-Hasan b. Khayrun the Qur’an-reciter say: ‘Abu Zakariyya Yahya b. Ali al-Tibrizi did not have an acceptable way of life; he persistently drank wine, wore silk and a gold-embroidered turban, and people would read his compositions to him while he was intoxicated.’ I mentioned to the hadith scholar Abu-l-Fadl Muhammad b. Nasir what Ibn Khayrun had reported; he fell silent, as though not rejecting it, and then said, ‘Even so, he was trustworthy in the field of language and in what he transmitted and reported.’”