1868.] Contributions to Persian Lexicography. 13 



last, three years later in A. H. 1017, it made its appearance, the 

 compiler thought fit to call it in honor of Akbar's successor Farhung 

 i Jahangiri. The micra' (Hazaj i musaddas) 



is the tarikh of the completion of the work. 



The preface of the dictionary is followed by an Introduction contain- 

 ing twelve chapters — 



1. On the boundaries of the land (j*)l-». 



2. On the Persian language. 



3. On the letters of the Alphabet, and the rule of J\d and Jli. 



4. On the arrangement of the words in the Farhang i Jahangiri. 



5. On the £-w» qaid adopted by the compiler.* 



6. On the interchange of letters. 



7. On pronominal affixes. 



8. On certain words, as j<i, *J, |y», y,, j*>. 



9. On terminations, as j-51, ^-^°, <£*&, p^ 9 , &o. 



10. On the use of the letters X, j, &, <J, Jji>, I, &c, as far as 

 they are used for inflections. 



11. On the spelling of certain words, chiefly compounds. 



12. On the JUU| oiLc . 



The dictionary itself contains only single Persian words and such 

 Persian compounds as have no iszafat. The Khdtimah is divided into 

 five chapters or doors — 



1. Figurative expressions. 



2. Compounds with or without the Iszafat, of which either one 

 or both words are Arabic. 



3. Words which contain any of the *JI3&&A o^, viz., ; La^ aUs 



4. Zand and Pazand words. 



5. Certain rare words, chiefly proper names of towns, persons, &c. 

 • Among the words, a few terms are found of the dialect of Shiraz, 



to which town the compiler appears to have belonged. The Zand 



* Eastern lexicographists describe the spelling of words, to avoid mistakes. 

 Thus the t_, is called X&c* yo^Jj the i_j with one clot ; and as it can now no 

 longer be mistaken, the letter is called &±9.so muqayyad fettered. Hence i}jJ>' 

 means the system of descriptive spelling. 



