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The Dehkhoda Dictionary or Dehkhoda Lexicon (Persian: لغتنامهٔ دهخدا or واژهنامه) is the largest comprehensive Persian encyclopedic dictionary ever published, comprising 200 volumes. It is published by the Tehran University Press (UTP) under the supervision of the Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute. It was first published ...
Folio from a manuscript of the Farhang-i Rashidi kept in the National Museum of Delhi. The Farhang-i Rashidi (Persian: فرهنگ رشىدى, lit. 'The dictionary of bravery/of Rashīd') [1] [2] is a Persian dictionary compiled in 17th-century Mughal India by scholar Abd-al-Rashid Thattawi, in the city of Thatta.
The institute traces its origins to a 1925 Iranian law decreeing the compilation of an official Persian dictionary.Work on the dictionary was begun by Dehkhoda, and upon his death, his residence was named The Dehkhoda Institute, and housed the academic staff from several Iranian universities who compiled the dictionary.
This category is for articles related to specific dictionaries and glossaries of the Persian language. Pages in category "Persian dictionaries" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Hasan Amid, the author of Amid Dictionary. Amid Dictionary or Amid Persian Dictionary (Persian: فرهنگ فارسی عمید, known also as فرهنگ عمید) is a two volume dictionary of Persian language, written by Hasan Amid. The dictionary was first published in 1963. [1] Hasan Amid had previously published a dictionary titled Farhang ...
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term Persian as a language name is first attested in English in the mid-16th century. [37] Farsi, which is the Persian word for the Persian language, has also been used widely in English in recent decades, more often to refer to Iran's standard Persian. However, the name Persian is still more ...
Allameh Ali-Akbar Dehkhodā (Persian: علیاکبر دهخدا; 1879 – March 9, 1956) was a prominent Iranian literary writer, philologist, and lexicographer. He was the author of the Dehkhoda Dictionary, the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language published to date.
Academy of Persian language and literature after the Iranian revolution continued its striving to protect the integrity of the Persian language. However, the attention of the academy has been turned towards the persistent infiltration of Persian, like many other languages, with English words, as a result of the globalization process.