10 Contributions to Persian Lexicography. [No. 1, 



" revered teacher Shaikh Muhammad Lad — May God have mercy on 

 " him ! — the Dastiir, the Dictionary hy Qazi Nacir uddi'n Grunbu<lzf, 

 " the Qnnyat uttalibin, the Dictionary hy Fakhr-i-Qawwas, the Dic- 

 " tionary by 'All Beg Be, the Dictionary by Amir Shihabuddin of 

 " Kirman, the Qafiyah-i-Kfsh, the Lisan ushshu'ara, the Igtilah 

 " ushshu'ara, the Jami' uccanayi', and the Dictionary by Shaikh 

 " Muhammad Khaghri ( (jrj.*^ )." 



The date of the compilation is not known ; the work must have, 

 however, been completed about the middle of the sixteenth century, 

 as the author knew Shaikh Muhammad Lad, the compiler of the 

 Muayyid (A. D. 1519). He also alludes to the Shaikh under *iiLo ^|. 



This dictionary gives no examples. The Kashf is of importance for 

 those who cannot procure copies of the Sharafnamah and the Muayyid. 



This valuable work which has been very little used, was compiled 

 hy Maulana Shaikh Ilahdad i Faiszi, son of Asad ul'ulama 'Ali Sher of 

 Sirhind. The year of the compilation, A. H. 1001, or A. D. 1593, is 

 given in the words |*U u^U, the tarikh of the book. As the words 

 are only arranged according to the first and last letters, it is some- 

 what troublesome to use the book. The Arabic words stand in each 

 facl before the Persian. The Turkish words are given after the Persian 

 words. The Arabic words and the examples are more numerous than 

 in the preceding works. There are a great number of verses marked 

 &sl)j+} by the compiler. 



The author makes occasionally critical attempts, and mentions 

 Indian pronunciations of several Persian words. 



The following extracts from this dictionary will shew that the com- 

 piler was a poet. His Masnawi entitled Ndz 6 Niyaz must not be 

 confounded with a Masnawi of the same title by Baqai (No. 1210 

 Asiatic Society Bengal). 



j *L£y^jJaJ| ^ki/o J& j\ Las' ^ ^j *A[^ ^l*i^ >_x& LJU # ^ 



The metre of the compiler's Masnawi is the same as of the Shhiu 



