A Comprehensive Persian - English Dictionary

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Francis Joseph Steingass did a remarkable job of compiling this enormous vocabulary of literary Persian at the end of the 19th century. If your goal is to read classical Persian literature, this dictionary is a must-have.

Steingass includes full vocalizations for all words, which is very helpful. His system of vowel transliteration is quite antiquated, though. It is the old British system, which seems to have been imported from Arabic, to which it is much better suited. However, those familiar with Modern Persian pronunciation will be able to figure out the correct equivalents for Steingass' choices.

I own the Manohar reprint pictured here. The paper is cheap and tears easily, but the quality of printing is actually pretty good. Most pages are clearly printed. While a few are slightly blurry or light, they are always legible. Furthermore, unlike some Indian publications I have seen, the text is well lined up on almost all pages. The margins don't vary wildly and on all but a very few pages, the edge of the text is parallel with the edge of the paper. Where the text is at a bit of an angle, it is not a great angle and does not look too awkward. (I include these comments because I suspect that other readers might, as I did, feel some trepidation about forking out money for an Indian reprint, as some of these are of rather bad quality.) Overall, I am quite happy to settle for less than wonderful paper in exchange for a very reasonable price for this tome. European or American reprints of books of comparable size can run several times the price.

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