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 Farhdng 

 i Jahdngiri. 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 yrjU. 



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 *& quid adopted by the compiler.* 

 0. On the interchange of letters. 



7. On pronominal affixes. 



8. On certain words, asj^, *J, \y, J., y>. 



9. On terminations, as £#, ***, ^ A , f ^, &c. 



10. On the use of the letters », j, \D t *J, J>, I, &c, as far as 

 they are used for inflections. 



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



12. On the dUU| *** . 



The dictionary itself contains only single Persian words and such 

 Persian compounds as have no iszafat. The Khali mail 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 &JI&^a <Jjj*>> viz., b ; . Lu ? ^U, 

 aU, Lfc, Uo, ^, ol*. 



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 u, is called S^^c^b, the u, with one dot ; and as it can now no 

 longer be mistaken, the letter is called *>.xSx3 muqayyad fettered. Hence ±$i 

 means the system of descriptive spelling. 



