Oxford Urdu English Dictionary

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S.M. Salimuddin (Executive, State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan, retired) Suhail Anjum (Freelancer, editor, and translator)

Oxford Urdu English Dictionary

S.M. Salimuddin (Executive, State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan, retired), Suhail Anjum (Freelancer, editor, and translator), Rauf Parekh (Chief Editor, Urdu Dictionary Board, Federal Ministry of Education) , Tariq Mahmud (Director, Bureau of Composition, Compilation and Translation, University of Karachi)

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Urdu

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
27 September 2013

Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language which has the twentieth largest world population of speakers, with 130 million speaking it as a native language and 270 million in total. It is the national language of Pakistan and is one of the 23 official languages of India. It has official language status in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, and Uttar Pradesh, and the national capital, Delhi; where it is spoken, learned, and regarded as a language of prestige. It is used in education, literature, office and court business, media, and in religious institutions. Urdu draws much vocabulary from Persian and Arabic. This dictionary provides exhaustive coverage of Urdu words, phrases, idioms including scientific and technical terms. Also included are words that have been part of the vocabulary used by poets, literati, and the common man over the last two hundred years. It is a comprehensive all-inclusive dictionary covering the classic and modern language originating from all citadels like Delhi, Lucknow, and Lahore. It has about 85,000 entries with their meanings, definitions, explanations, part of speech, etymology, sub-entries (words, inflexions, phrase, proverbs, and compounds) in a very user-friendly manner. One of the key features of the dictionary is its pronunciation. This dictionary is introducing/presenting pronunciation of Urdu words in IPA (International Phonetics Alphabet) for the very first time in the history of Urdu lexicography. IPA is internationally recognized and approved system of phonetic notation. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association as a standardized representation of almost all the sounds and letters of spoken languages of the world. It gives more clear and exact pronunciation then conventional system of symbols, coding, and Romanization. Also it provides an extra help for foreign language esp. English users such as, students and teachers, linguists, speech pathologists and therapists, singers, actors, lexicographers, and translators.

It is the most comprehensive and affordable dictionary as compared to the available range of bilingual Urdu-English dictionaries in the market.

For the very first time this dictionary has been arranged from right to left to facilitate readers of Urdu. This volume will definitely fill the long felt need for a reliable, user-friendly, comprehensive Urdu-English dictionary.

Edited by: S.M. Salimuddin (Executive State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan retired), Suhail Anjum (Freelancer, editor, and translator), Rauf Parekh (Chief Editor, Urdu Dictionary Board, Federal Ministry of Education), Tariq Mahmud (Director, Bureau of Composition, Compilation and Translation, University of Karachi)
Imprint: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dimensions: Height: 248mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 49mm
Weight: 1.510kg
ISBN: 9780195979947
ISBN 10: 019597994X
Pages: 1200
Publication Date: 27 September 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Editor's note Using this dictionary Sound Key and Introductory Note (based on the IPA symbols) Abbreviations Dictionary A list of Anglicize words

S.M. Salimuddin, Executive, State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan, retired, Suhail Anjum, Freelancer, editor, and translator Compilers: Mr S.M. Salimuddin is a retired executive of State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan. He enrolled at the Hameedia College, Bhopal (affiliated to Agra University, India) in 1946 and graduated in Arts from the said university in 1951 in Urdu and English Literature. Mr Suhail Anjum has been associated with OUP as a freelancer, editor, and translator on a number of projects. He has also contributed as editor to the Oxford English-Urdu Dictionary compiled by Shanul Haq Haqqee. Chief Editor: Dr Rauf Parekh is a lexicographer and well-known author, compiler, reviewer, and columnist of Pakistan. He has served as Chief Editor of the Urdu Dictionary Board, Federal Ministry of Education. Editor: Mr Tariq Mahmud is an author of more than thirty books including four English-Urdu dictionaries. He has served as Director, Bureau of Composition, Compilation and Translation, University of Karachi and as Registrar, University of Karachi.

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