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Book/Printed Material Kitāb K̲h̲airullug̲h̲āt, yaʻnī, Pushto Urdū lug̲h̲āt K̲h̲airullug̲h̲āt / Pushto Urdū lug̲h̲at

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Title

  • Kitāb K̲h̲airullug̲h̲āt, yaʻnī, Pushto Urdū lug̲h̲āt

Other Title

  • K̲h̲airullug̲h̲āt
  • Pushto Urdū lug̲h̲at

Summary

  • Dictionary of Pushto into Urdu.
  • Kitāb K̲h̲airullug̲h̲āt yaʻnī Pushto Urdū Lugh̲āt (Pushto-Urdu Dictionary of Khairullah) was published in a lithographic version in Lahore in 1906. The author, Qazi Khairullah, took six years to produce the work. Khairullah, who is pictured in a simple drawing at the beginning of the book, was a church missionary and teacher of Pushto. The book has a preface in Urdu (pages 1-3), in which the author discusses the importance of having a Pushto-Urdu dictionary and its use as a supplementary book for schools that were being established in the borderland regions of the Northwest Frontier Province of British India. This is followed by a brief essay (pages 3-6) in Urdu, "Tārīkh-i Zabān-i Pushto" (History of the Pushto language), in which the author identifies Pushto as an Indo-European language (like Persian, Latin, and Sanskrit). He states that there is no textual evidence predating the arrival of Islam to support that Pushto had an ancient alphabet. The bulk of the work (pages 7-192) is the Pushto-Urdu vocabulary. The dictionary does not include the many words in Pushto that start with the letter ya, the last letter of Pushto alphabet. The volume presented here is the first Pushto-Urdu dictionary ever compiled. It was produced at a period in the history in the Northwest Frontier Province when Pushto- and Urdu-speaking peoples were interacting with each other in increasing numbers through contacts with the British Indian Army and at schools in the region. World Digital Library.

Names

  • K̲h̲airullāh, Qāz̤ī

Created / Published

  • Lāhaur : Navalkishor Gais Prinṭing Varks, 1906.

Headings

  • -  Pushto language--Dictionaries--Urdu
  • -  Pakistan

Notes

  • -  Cover title.
  • -  Lithograph.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  Persian, Pushto and Urdu.

Medium

  • 192 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PK6793.U7 K47 1906

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 81907013

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Persian Language Manuscript Project are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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Chicago citation style:

K̲H̲Airullāh, Qāz̤Ī. Kitāb K̲h̲airullug̲h̲āt, yaʻnī, Pushto Urdū lug̲h̲āt. Lāhaur: Navalkishor Gais Prinṭing Varks, 1906. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/81907013/.

APA citation style:

K̲H̲Airullāh, Q. (1906) Kitāb K̲h̲airullug̲h̲āt, yaʻnī, Pushto Urdū lug̲h̲āt. Lāhaur: Navalkishor Gais Prinṭing Varks. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/81907013/.

MLA citation style:

K̲H̲Airullāh, Qāz̤Ī. Kitāb K̲h̲airullug̲h̲āt, yaʻnī, Pushto Urdū lug̲h̲āt. Lāhaur: Navalkishor Gais Prinṭing Varks, 1906. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/81907013/>.