18 Contributions to Persian Lexicography. [No. 1, 



" Fear my tear ; for it is a wicked orphan, a tyrant, a reckless one." 

 MSS. of Suriiri's dictionary are scarce ; the excellent MS. preserved 



in the Fort William College Library was bought at the high price of 



Us. 100. 



The title u»j&\£* / ¥ K means im ^ J » oliJ £\+^ £+¥*• The first 



edition was dedicated to Sultan Abul Muzaffar 'Abbas Bahadur Khan, 



king of Persia. 



9. ^yU. Ul') t ^ 



This dictionary was compiled at Delhi in A. H. 1053, or A. D. 

 1643, by Ni'matullah al Husaini of Shiraz. His takhalluc is (m ^>j 

 wacli. In his preface he praises Nawwab Makramat Khan, a vizier 

 of Sbabjahan, to whom the word j^kk refers. The author has not 

 specified his sources ; but on examination it will be found that the 

 dictionary is almost the same as the second edition of Sururf, some- 

 what shortened, with a few meanings from the Farhang i Jahangiri. 

 The introduction contais a small Persian grammar likewise copied from 

 the Farhang. The book is a fine example of wholesale plagiarism, and 

 is therefore deservedly but little known. MSS. are very rare ; the 

 MS. of our Society, No. 304, is very fair. 



The arrangement of the words is the same as in Sururi. Vullers' 

 F. occasionally quotes this dictionary, as under tjj^^- 

 10. fLXid^i 



This Dictionary is well known. The first edition was printed in 

 1818 at Calcutta by Captain Roebuck, and the third and last, with a 

 few corrections, in 1834 by Hakim 'Abdul Majid. The name of the 

 compiler is Muhammad Husain of Tabriz ; Bnrhan is his takhalluc. 

 He completed the dictionary in A. D. 1652, or A. H. 1063, as 

 indicated by the tarikh £±tt ^M>ji jilJ ^&, an d dedicated it to a 

 contemporary of Shahjahan, Sultan 'Abdullah Qutbsbah of the Dek- 

 khan. where for a time he must have lived. Hence he prefers Dekhan 

 synonyms ; thus under^«L^ he says : — 



where the FJ. has — ±i1y. &k£ >jW j (_y~ ,L ? tyf ** i^s^^t ^ cjLxj j| 

 Durban's object was to compile a practical vocabulary Avithout giving 

 examples. In adopting the order of words as followed in our 

 dictionaries, he arranged them more conveniently than any preceding 



