Sindhi to English dictionaries explained

Sindhi to English dictionaries are bilingual dictionaries which provide English equivalents of Sindhi language words.

Compilations of Sindhi and English terms were created for non-Sindhi speaking students in the early 1800s.[1] The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta published articles with vocabulary lists in 1836 and 1843.[1] Sindhi was one of the languages included in Leech's 1943 vocabularies of Indic languages for the British government.[1] In 1849, George Stack published a Sindhi to English dictionary consisting of 15,000 terms, followed in 1855 by an English to Sindhi dictionary with 17000 terms, in which he used the Devanagari script.[2] Father G. Shirt published a Sindhi to English dictionary in 1879 in which he used Arabic script and which became the basis for a number of other versions, including Parmanand Mewarm's 1910 and 1933 works.[2] Beginning in the 1960s, Deccan College began work on a dictionary with both Devanagari and Arabic characters which included contemporary usage and cross references.[2] Sirajul Haque Memon was the chief editor of the Oxford English-Sindhi Dictionary.[3]

In addition to standard dictionaries, concise dictionaries have been compiled by Shahani.[4]

Yadgar Sindhi to English Dictionary is a reference work edited by A. D. Shah and Zulfiqar Ali Bhatti and published by Yadgar Publishers.It is a bilingual dictionary and contains over 8000 English meanings of Sindhi words.[5]

Electronic dictionaries and software that converts Sindhi into English and English into Sindhi have also been developed.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Datta, Amaresh. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature. 13 September 2014. 1988. Sahitya Akademi. 9788126011940. 1037–.
  2. Book: Hausmann, Franz Josef. Dictionnaires. 13 September 2014. Walter de Gruyter. 1991. 9783110124217. 2516–.
  3. News: Siraj Memon, an icon of Sindhi literature, passes away at 79. The Express Tribune. 28 September 2014.
  4. Book: Sebeok, Thomas Albert. Current Trends in Linguistics. 13 September 2014. 1970. Walter de Gruyter. 213–.
  5. http://www.thesindhtimes.com/education/sindhi-to-english-dictionary-published-by-yadgar-publishers-is-theneed-of-the-time-altaf-malkani/ Yadgar Sindhi to English Dictionary - The Sindh Times Feb. 02, 2004