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A Thematic Dictionary of Modern Persian [Hardcover]

Colin Turner
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23 Oct 2003 0700704582 978-0700704583

Now available in paperback, A Thematic Dictionary of Modern Persian is a reference work unique in the history of English-Persian lexicography. It offers a considerably extended guide to modern everyday Persian vocabulary, arranged by theme. With approximately 25,000 Persian headwords in over seventy themed sections, it covers every conceivable vocabulary need: from everyday topics such as food or the weather, to more in-depth topics such as astronomy, psychology or international relations. Supplementary wordlists cover verbs, adjectives and parts of speech, while a special section on Persian simple and compound verbs will appeal to all learners of Persian. An easy-to-use index of English words, with over 20,000 items of vocabulary, completes the work and gives it the look and feel of a regular two-way bilingual dictionary.

Invaluable for vocabulary building, essay-writing and specialised translation, A Thematic Dictionary of Modern Persian caters for all your Persian language needs in one volume, and is designed to make word learning a pleasure rather than a chore.


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  • Hardcover: 696 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge (23 Oct 2003)
  • Language: Persian
  • ISBN-10: 0700704582
  • ISBN-13: 978-0700704583
  • Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 17.8 x 3.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,848,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"[A]n impressive achievement and a good practical resource for students and tourists alike." - Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, Winter 2012 Vol. V No. 1

About the Author

Colin Turner is a Reader in Islamic Thought at the University of Durham,
UK. His main research areas include Islamic theology and philosophy;
Sufism; Shi'ism; The Qur'an and Qur'anic exegesis;
Persian language and literature. Some of his previous publications are
Islam: The Basics (2005) and The Koran (2004), also published by
Routledge.


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3.0 out of 5 stars Thematic Persian Dictionary 24 Mar 2013
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Very expensive but well presented - the words are listed under themes - e.g, Social, Military, Travelling etc etc etc. Not very comprehensive though and VERY expensive.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, Useful and Ridiculously Expensive 8 Jun 2006
By Richard Deveno - Published on Amazon.com
First of all don't get your hopes up. This book is a big list of words organized loosely into several thematic chapters: crime, politics, trade, military, health, law, etc. Each chapter is about ten or twenty pages. And the format is sparse. Here is the english term, here is a phonetic transliteration of the Persian, here is the Persian in traditional script. No examples, no text other than the words. It's a giant set of lists, period. Each chapter is organized alphabetically by the Persian. However there is an alphabetic index at the back that lists the page where every English term is found. The book is certainly convenient and it's very nice to have everything for certain topical areas "right there". But I'm not sure if it's $135 worth of convenient. For this price one could actually afford to buy three or four specialized dictionaries. I would probably buy it again. Just wanted everyone to know what they were getting into though.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely helpful 19 July 2008
By Danesh Amuz - Published on Amazon.com
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This book has a few key points that actually do make it worth the price - I watched on and off for a year and the cheapest I ever saw was $119. I use this in conjunction with the Combined New Persian-English and English-Persian Dictionary, by Manoochehr Aryanpur-Kashani and Abbad Aryanpur-Kashani, by Mazda Publishing. These are the two best dictionaries I've found so far.

The good:

- The Thematic Dictionary lists the Farsi text as well as transliterated pronunciations in English rather than a crazy linguistic phonics system that's about as complicated as the Farsi alphabet itself. It's amazing how difficult that is to find. Personally, I like to guess on the pronunciation, but also to check and see if I'm right. This book lets me confirm or correct as needed.

- It lists the stems of irregular verbs right next to the verb itself.

- It does list synonyms (in English) and slang.

The first two I would call invaluable for anyone looking to learn Farsi. As all things do, however, it does have its flaws:

- Everything's listed alphabetically by the Farsi alphabet, so the index of English words is a must. It gets annoying quickly when you're looking up more than a few words at once. It's still worth it, and (for me, at least) it's incentive to remember the vocab you're looking up.

- Trying to look up a word in Farsi when you don't know what it means is pretty much impossible with this book, since you'd both have to know what category it falls into and hope it's the same as the word listed, since synonyms are of course an issue. So if you're serious about learning the language, you do need a regular dictionary as well.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Expensive, but expansive 24 Sep 2007
By RAK - Published on Amazon.com
The book is not cheap, but it has been extremely helpful to me. This is not a "starter" dictionary, nor should it be the only Persian-Farsi dictionary in your collection. It is very useful when you know what subject you need to research, and it supplements my other dictionaries quite well. This dictionary contains useful slang, and some other uncommon words not found in other resources.
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