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Pashto also known as Pakhto, Pushto, Pukhto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, Pushtu, Pushtoo, Pathan, or Afghan language) is an Iranian language of the Indo-Iranian language family spoken by Pashtuns living in southeastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. This major new edition of the Wallenberg English Pashto Dictionary has been completely updated to include the very latest vocabulary. Language is now studied in the context of its culture, so this new edition now includes cultural notes, providing interesting and helpful information on life in the Pashtun people. The Dictionary is an essential reference tool for all serious students of Pashto at university level and beyond, and for those who need an authoritative and comprehensive guide to Pashto. The book is a new and fully updated edition of the Paperback English Pashto or dictionary and offers over 480 pages of definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use in Pashto, The words have been carefully selected after consulting a database of newspapers and Pashto contemporary literature. Definitions have been made clearer than before. This portable and affordable dictionary is perfect for general reference at home, at school, or in the office. Review: "I have been a loyal user of the Wallenberg Pashto Dictionary since my Posting in Kabul. In my current position as Battalion Commander, I use the Wallenberg Pashto Dictionary every morning to help prepare the local news bulletin for the people of the area" - A NATO Soldier in Afghanistan
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
I am currently a student of Pashto, and I bought a copy of this believing that it would fill the void that exists in Pashto dictionaries. Sadly, it doesn't even come close to doing that. It claims to contain 480 pages, yet only contains 360 or so. It also claims to have been "fully revised and updated with all the latest vocabulary", yet doesn't contain such basic vocabulary as "car", "aircraft", "holiday" or "television", so it just doesn't deliver what it promises. It just seems to be a re-cover of a dictionary that I saw that was written at the turn of the last century, and on first glance, it would appear that not a single item of new vocabulary has been added, although a few pages of cultural notes have been added at the beginning. My advice; don't make the same mistake I did and think that you're getting the answer to your prayers. This book is no better than the several outdated Pashto dictionaries that are available on the market, it just claims to be.
I purchased this dictionary for our Pashto speakers in school. They tell me that they find the printed Pashto script very difficult to read and they won't use it.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
The dictionary has Romanized script (English) along with the Arabic script which enabled me to learn Pashto in the beginning without knowledge of the Arabic script.
I leaned the Pashto language from the first edition of the Dictionary. I have only bought this second edition as my previous edition is falling apart. Pashto does not have a proper dictionary but this one gets as close as it gets. I went for my field trip to Pakistan and this dictionary is used in the schools there too. The new Edition has an introduction from the head of department Kabul University. I have own practically all the Pashto dictionaries and this one is the best of the bunch.
The Dictionary seems to be unpopular with some people in Pakistan because it is dedicated to Hamid Karzai a leading Pashtun and head of State. That is why it incurs some disparaging comments and negative reviews. Also in the cultural notes it seems to welcome new regime in Kabul. The publishers might have been wise to do away with this politically sensitive introduction. Some people in Pakistan have also attacked this dictionary because the impression the publishers are a Jewish company.
Pashto is a language with split ergativity. Adjectives come before nouns. Nouns and adjectives are inflected for gender (Masculine/Feminine), number (Singular/Plural) and case (Direct/Oblique). Direct case is used for subjects and direct objects in the present tense. Oblique case is used after most pre- and post-positions as well as in the past tense as the subject of transitive verbs.
The dictionary gives several alternatives and forms, which I have not found in any other dictionary.
The difference between the old and new versions, are the cultural notes section which have been added on to the 361 pages. The dictionary also further lacks some modern words. Some important words are missing, But on the other hand its consists of commonly used words in the tribal region, so maybe the modern words used in a city like New York are not here, but words from Pastoon tribal food, ingredients for a meal, goat breeding, Islamic terms so often used by the religious Pathan people are in this dictionary.
Modern words like television, car, Helicopter are the same in the Pashtoon language as in English but this is no excuse it's a major fault in a dictionary that claims to be modern.
If one wishes to converse in the colloquial in the Pashtoon part of Afghanistan and Waziristan then this is the dictionary for you. Don't expect Oxford or Webster Dictionary standards but the best dictionary so far.
I leaned the Pashto language from the first edition of the Dictionary. I have only bought this second edition as my previous edition is falling apart. Pashto does not have a proper dictionary but this one gets as close as it gets. I went for my field trip to Pakistan and this dictionary is used in the schools there too. The new Edition has an introduction from the head of department Kabul University. I have own practically all the Pashto dictionaries and this one is the best of the bunch.
The Dictionary seems to be unpopular with some people in Pakistan because it is dedicated to Hamid Karzai a leading Pashtun and head of State. That is why it incurs some disparaging comments and negative reviews. Also in the cultural notes it seems to welcome new regime in Kabul. The publishers might have been wise to do away with this politically sensitive introduction. Some people in Pakistan have also attacked this dictionary because the impression the publishers are a Jewish company.
Pashto is a language with split ergativity. Adjectives come before nouns. Nouns and adjectives are inflected for gender (Masculine/Feminine), number (Singular/Plural) and case (Direct/Oblique). Direct case is used for subjects and direct objects in the present tense. Oblique case is used after most pre- and post-positions as well as in the past tense as the subject of transitive verbs.
The dictionary gives several alternatives and forms, which I have not found in any other dictionary.
The difference between the old and new versions, are the cultural notes section which have been added on to the 361 pages. The dictionary also further lacks some modern words. Some important words are missing, But on the other hand its consists of commonly used words in the tribal region, so maybe the modern words used in a city like New York are not here, but words from Pastoon tribal food, ingredients for a meal, goat breeding, Islamic terms so often used by the religious Pathan people are in this dictionary.
Modern words like television, car, Helicopter are the same in the Pashtoon language as in English but this is no excuse it's a major fault in a dictionary that claims to be modern.
If one wishes to converse in the colloquial in the Pashtoon part of Afghanistan and Waziristan then this is the dictionary for you. Don't expect Oxford or Webster Dictionary standards but the best dictionary so far.
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