Oxford Urdu-English Dictionary  (English, Hardcover, unknown)

Oxford Urdu-English Dictionary is for those who aspire to learn Urdu through English and vice versa.

Summary of the Book

This user-friendly, reliable, and comprehensive bilingual dictionary has been arranged from right to left to facilitate readers of Urdu. It offers exhaustive coverage of Urdu words, idioms and phrases with their meanings, definitions, explanations, part of speech, etymology, and sub-entries (words, phrase, inflexions, proverbs, and compounds) including technical and scientific terms. The dictionary also includes words that have been part of the vocabulary used by literati, poets, and the common people over the last two centuries. It covers the classic and modern language originating from all citadels like Delhi, Lucknow, and Lahore. It has about 85,000 entries, along with the key feature - their pronunciation. This dictionary is introducing pronunciation of Urdu words in IPA (International Phonetics Alphabet) for the very first time in the history of Urdu lexicography.

About Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is a renowned publishing house that develops and publishes high quality textbooks, scholarly works, and academic books for school courses, bilingual dictionaries and also digital materials for both learning and teaching. It is a division of the University of Oxford. The first book was locally published in the year 1912. Some of the books published under their banner are India’s Ancient Past, Atkins’ Physical Chemistry, Companion to Politics in India, Sociology: Themes and Perspectives and Common Mistakes at IELTS Advanced …and How to Avoid Them.