Farsi-English/English-Farsi (Persian) Concise Dictionary (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary) | 
 enlarge | Author: Anooshirvan M. Miandji
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 410877
Media: Paperback
Edition: Bilingual
Pages: 250
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 4 x 1.3
ISBN: 078180860X
Dewey Decimal Number: 491.55321
EAN: 9780781808606
ASIN: 078180860X
Publication Date: March 2003
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Product Description
8,400 total entries General vocabulary of Iran's official language Includes Farsi script and phonetic pronunciation Concise, portable format Ideal for travelers, businesspeople, or students of Farsi or English
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 Dont get the book July 3, 2008
K. Tayeb
This book is garbage, total oshkhal, dont get it if you wantto make sncse to any one
Quite worthless January 26, 2008
Pythagoras (Vienna, Austria)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have never seen so useless a pocket dictionary. During my visit in Iran, I almost never fond any of the day-to-day words I was looking for, instead I got "perspiration", "indigenious", and "chahaarnal raftan". It's simply a word list with one translation to each post and its word class. No phrases, not even a list of numerals.
 Not a bad effort March 8, 2007
S. Golzari (Edin. UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like the way it is laid out and the use of phonetic spelling for Farsi speakers but I found that it was missing some words, such as 'khojaste' and 'baad' (not wind).
 A good starting point, but not the end January 1, 2007
Vincent Damewood (Portland, OR USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This dictionary isn't perfect, but it's a good start. Its advantages are that it has each Persian word written in both a Roman transliteration as well as the original Arabic script, its layout is fairly straightforward, and according to a Persian friend of mine, the words included are fairly typical. He also said that it's well suited for what I needed it for, but stressed that it's for beginners. The only thing I could see as an improvement to this book is that it include a cue to the meaning of the translations for words with one-to-many translations. For example, the English word lie has two meanings (synonyms with recline and deceive), but if you look up lie in this book, you will get two entries, with no indication as to which one means which.
If I had known what was in this book before I bought it, I would still have bought it. It was affordable and is worth its price, but it's not going to be my last dictionary.
Not worth it. June 1, 2006
Linguist
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This dictionary is not valuable to the beginner of Persian/Farsi because it merely gives quick glosses rather than full definitions. Because of the scant glosses, the student will not be able to find correct or appropriate definitions for a large number of words listed in the dictionary. It also fails to give the learner enough grammatical information for it to be a useful dictionary.
I have studied about 9 different languages over the past 10 years, and I've found that a good dictionary is the most essential tool for any language learner. Don't begin your study of Persian/Farsi with a tool that, in my opinon, is not worth the paper it's printed on.
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