The Tohfatolloghat ; an Unknown Dictionary
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Morteza Ja'fari
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(Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.)
Keywords: Keywords: dictionary, the Tohfatolloghat, the Jahangiri dictionary, the Borhan Ghate', the Dehkhoda Encyclopedia,
Abstract :
Abstract Tohfatolloghat is a dictionary of which the only copy with the number 2708 is kept at Tehran university. Because of its missing pages in the beginning and ending the book, the name of the author and the date of its authorship are unknown. The probable date of its writing is the 12th century. It has 8625 words, 1060 of them appear at the margin of the book. This dictionary has been copied in abstract from Jahangiri dictionary and besides the elimination of historical evidences and addition of synonyms, the writer has arranged the entries alphabetically and has also added compound expressions from the Borhan Ghate' in the margin of the book and got a thorough collection of the words based on rhyming letters. It has been written in nasta'ligh ( a kind of calligraphy ) and rarely has mistakes. It has been compared and collated with Farhangh Jahangiri, Borhan Ghate' and Dehkhoda encyclopedia in the process of correction and in this way it has presented a thorough list of the pronunciations of the words Borhan Ghate' and Dehkhoda dictionary lack them. There are, besides the Farsi words, some terms in Arabic, Hendi, Turkish , Roman and other languages. It also has some Arabicised words and a few terms in Shirazi, Gilani, Esfahani and Ghazwini dialects. Like the Borhan Ghate', this dictionary includes some grammatical and interpretive words entitles synonyms and antonyms and the like.
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