Native word formation Persian makes extensive use of word building and combining affixes, stems, nouns and adjectives. Persian frequently uses derivational agglutination to form new words from nouns, ...
Persian belongs to the Western branch of the Iranian family of Indo-European languages, which also includes Kurdish, Gilaki, Mazandarani, Talyshi, and Baluchi. The language is in the Southwestern Iran ...
The Dehkhoda Dictionary (Persian: ???????? ??????) is the largest comprehensive Persian dictionary ever published, comprising 16 volumes (more than 27000 pages). The complete work is an ...
Scottish Language Dictionaries (SLD) is Scotland's lexicographical body for the Scots Language. SLD is responsible for the major Scots dictionaries, the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the ...
The first precursors of true Gaelic dictionaries were the vocabularies, often little less than wordlists, which made their first appearance in 1702 with Rev. Robert Kirk's wordlist, an appendix to Wil ...
Since Japanese bilingual dictionaries, which are available for most major world languages, are too numerous to be discussed here, the two cases in point are Ei-Wa jiten (英和辞典) "English–Japanese d ...
Lexicographical terminology First, it will be useful to introduce some key Japanese terms for dictionaries and collation (ordering of entry words) that the following discussion will be using.The Wikti ...
Older German dictionaries The precursor German dictionaries were Glossaries, of which the Abrogans from the 8th Century is the oldest known.Petrus Dasypodius, Dictionarium Latinogermanicum, 1537Frisiu ...
List of notable French dictionariestitle year Dictionnaire de l'Académie fran?aise 1694 to present Collins-Robert French Dictionary 1978 to present Littré 1877 Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopedique Lar ...
Etymologicum teutonicae linguae, the first known Dutch dictionary published by Cornelius Kiliaan in 1599. It continues to be a unique source of obsolete words today.'t Nieuw Woorden-Boeck der Regten ( ...
These dictionaries generally aim for extensive coverage of the language for native speakers. They typically only cover one variety of English, either British or American.Note that the publisher's defi ...
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition. Edited by Jess Stei ...
Editorial principles and practices The first editor, Judy Pearsall, wrote in the introduction that it is based on a modern understanding of language and is derived from a corpus of contemporary Englis ...
Editorial principles and practices The first editor, Judy Pearsall, wrote in the introduction that it is based on a modern understanding of language and is derived from a corpus of contemporary Englis ...
As in most English-speaking countries, there is no official governmental regulator or overseer of correct spelling and grammar. The Macquarie Dictionary is used by universities and other organisations ...
