Oxford Urdu–English Dictionary (9th Edition)

Description

Oxford Urdu-English Dictionary, a comprehensive, all-inclusive and authentic work, is a continuation of the bright traditions of research and scholarship of Oxford University Press in the field of lexicography and publishing. OUED has about 275,000 Urdu entries including words, inflexion, compounds, phrases, idioms and proverbs and their English meanings, equivalents and definitions. It provides the part of speech, grammatical information, etymology with variants, alternatives and antonyms of the entries.

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.

Rich authoritative coverage of the Urdu language is given by presenting terminologies from like fields Philosophy, Religion, Law, Science and Technology etc. 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. OUED features pronunciation of Urdu words in International Phonetics Alphabets (IPA) for the very first time in the history of Urdu lexicography. One of the salient features of the dictionary is its comprehensive list of Anglicized Urdu words.

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 user 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.

Author Biography

Dr. Rauf Parekh has an MA and PhD from the University of Karachi. He is a critic of Urdu Literature and regularly contributes to the daily Dawn, Karachi. He is a former Chief Editor of the Urdu Dictionary Board and is presently teaching at the Department of Urdu, University of Karachi. He is the compiler of the first slang Urdu dictionary and Chief Editor of the Oxford Urdu – English Dictionary.