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Persian Vocabulary

Ann K S Lambton author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Jan '53

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This work contains a wide range of common words and phrases for students studying contemporary and classical Persian literature.

This work is intended mainly for the student of contemporary Persian. It will also be a useful handbook for those who wish to read classical Persian literature. The Persian-English and English-Persian sections contain a wide range of the more common words and phrases.This work, a companion to Professor Lambton's Persian Grammar (also available in a Students' edition), is intended mainly for the student of contemporary Persian. It will, however, also be a useful handbook for those who wish to read classical Persian literature. The Persian-English and English-Persian sections contain a wide range of the more common words and phrases.

'This volume … meets a need much felt by those who, after completing the grammatical study of the language, wish to tackle both the easier literary texts and to read the daily papers, and have need of a more convenient and more handy volume than those of the great dictionaries of Haim and the old but none the less useful one of Steingass.' East and West
'This vocabulary, though originally designed as a companion volume to Dr Lambton' Persian Grammar, is in fact an independent work. Its Persian-English and English-Persian sections are complementary and represent a practical, concise record of modern Persian vocabulary such as can be found nowhere else at the present time.' British Book News

ISBN: 9780521091541

Dimensions: 217mm x 138mm x 30mm

Weight: 460g

408 pages