page_title: Dehkhoda Dictionary
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: Dehkhoda Dictionary / References
caption_attribution_description: English: Handwriting of Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, about his Loghatnameh. فارسی: دست‌نوشتهٔ علی‌اکبر دهخدا پس آنچه را که خوانندهٔ این کتاب می‌بیند تنها نتیجهٔ یک عمر نیست بلکه نتیجهٔ بسی عمرهاست&#32;&#91;So what the reader of this book is looking at, is not the result of one lifetime, but rather many lifetimes.&#93;
context_page_description: The Dehkhoda Dictionary is the largest comprehensive Persian dictionary ever published, comprising 200 volumes. It is published by the Tehran University Press under the supervision of the Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute. It was first published in 1931. It traces the historical development of the Persian language, providing a comprehensive resource to scholars and academic researchers, as well as describing usage in its many variations throughout the world.
  The complete work is an ongoing effort that has taken over forty-five years of effort by Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda and a cadre of other experts. Although Dehkhoda covers a big part of literary terms and words in Persian, the first edition of it lacks most scientific and technology terms coined by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature during the past decades. However the newer editions cover them. Dehkhoda states in the preface of the first edition of the dictionary that "Not only does this book miss 2/3 of today’s entire Persian vocabulary, at least half of the words I knew were forgotten and not recorded in this book." Many of those words were added in newer editions published after his death.
context_section_description: The preface of the digital version of the Dehkhoda Dictionary, release 3.0. Tehran University Press. 2006.
caption: Dehkhoda's personal note: "What the reader of this dictionary sees is not the result of a lifetime, but rather the result of many lifetimes."
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