18 . Contributions to Persian Leccieograpfy. [No. 1, 



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



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

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



^he title o^W 8- meanS ^ ^ ^^ *** The fiVSt 

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



king of Persia. 



9. ^iU oUH) £*=?• 



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

 1643 by Ni'matullah al Husaini of Shiraz. His takhalluc is J*j 

 W n 9 U In his preface he praises Nawwab Makramat Khan, a vizier 

 of Shahjahan, to whom the word ^ 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 Sururi, 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 Suniri. Vullers' 

 F. occasionally quotes this dictionary, as under ^U*.. 

 10. gXiiiAtojJ 

 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; Burhan is his takhalluc. 

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

 indicated by the tarikh ^liol^ ^G v l^, and dedicated it to a 

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

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

 synonyms ; thus under^US he says :— ^ 



II ^b^ib SS o3jj1 ^yoy. <j?<^ & ^ jt b ^i 



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Burhan's object was to compile a practical vocabulary without giving 

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

 dictionaries, he arranged them more conveniently than any preceding 



