Bibliography
Dari Dictionary Bibliography
Dari Dictionaries
لغات عامیانهٔ فارسی افغانستان – عبدالله افغانی نویس، مؤسسهٔ تحقیقات و انتشارات بلخ، ۱۳۳۵. (AfghanI nawIs, Abdullah. lughAt-e AmIyAna-e fArsI-e Afghanistan, muasesa-e ta(H)qIqAt O enteshArAt-e balkh, 1335 (1956). A Dictionary of Afghan Persian Slangs. An excellent resource. Most of these entries are included in The Great Dictionary of Afghanistan. A PDF is available online at https://archive.org/details/LughaatEAamiyanaEFarsiEAfghanistanFarsi
Bulkin, Carleton. Dari Practical Dictionary (Dari-English, English-Dari) (2nd ed.), New York: Hippocrene Books, 2012. 30,000 entries with excellent appendices of geographical terms of Afghan provinces and districts, proverbs & expressions, musical terms, flora and fauna, forms of address, tribes, and verb forms.
Farani, Masud, etc. www.afghan-dic.com – The Great Dictionary of Afghanistan – قاموس کبیر افغانستان (qAmUs-e kabIr-e afghAnestAn) – د افغانستان لوی قاموس (da afghAnestAn lOE qAmUs), 2017. This comprehensive work has 45,000 entries and includes A Dictionary of Afghan Persian Slangs and other works. Helpful for pronunciation and colloquial Dari—and comparisons between Dari and Farsi.
Fishstein, Paul and Ghaznawi, M. Rahim. English-Dari Dictionary, Kabul: Peace Corps, 1979. About 7000 entries. Dictionary entries are in English, Dari transcription, and Dari. The second part of the dictionary is a list of idioms and phrases commonly used in everyday conversation—including Dari words without English translation, and grammatical terms. A PDF is available online at https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED192577
Neghat, Mohammad Nasim; Burhan, Esmael; and Gouttierre, Thomas E. The Dari-English Dictionary –قاموس دری-انگلیسی (qAmUs-e darI-englIsI), Center for Afghan Studies, University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1993. It includes 20,138 entries and is the standard Dari-English dictionary.
Sakaria, Sardar. Concise English-Dari Dictionary, Kabul, 1967. About 4000 entries. Dari is only transcribed—not in the Dari font. Dr. Wilson is mentioned in the introduction, and thanked for his assistance. It contains a 22-page appendix of grammar notes and useful words and phrases. It is short and not so useful. A PDF is available online at https://www.loc.gov/item/72187679
Sayd, Mustafa Ajan, Kiseleva, L.N. and Mikolaĭchik, V. I. Dari-English Dictionary – based on Dari-Russkiĭ slovar, 1978, 744 pages, Russian Language Publishing House, Moscow. This dictionary has about 20,000 entries. It is an excellent complement to Neghat’s dictionary from the University of Nebraska. The edition printed by Dunwoody Publishing has several pages missing in the beginning of غ (gh).
Farsi Dictionaries
Dehkhoda Dictionary App – When all else fails, go to the exhaustive Dehkhoda! Vajehyab.com uses Dehkhoda extensively.
Google Translate – Farsi to English and English to Farsi. https://translate.google.ca/?sl=en&tl=fa&op=translate&hl=en Often follows Aryanpour, but some additions.
http://www.farsidic.com – the most useful resource for checking English-Farsi and reverse
https://aryanpour.com – useful for a second check after farsidic.com
http://www.vajehyab.com – useful for pronunciation check and comprehensive searches (combines more than 20 dictionaries and sources, including Dehkhoda)
https://glosbe.com/en/fa -- with 180,000 entries and 4,400,000 examples, this is an excellent place to see how Farsi speakers have translated English words in books.
Other Dictionaries
Google Translate – Arabic to English, English to Arabic. https://translate.google.ca/?sl=en&tl=fa&op=translate&hl=en Often useful—especially for medical terms.
Redhouse, J.W. Redhouse’s Turkish Dictionary, London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880. 160,000 entries. Both English-Turkish and Turkish-English. A PDF is available online at https://www.academia.edu/44420751/Redhouses_Ottoman_Turkish_Dictionary_Redhouseun_Osmanl%C4%B1_T%C3%BCrk%C3%A7esi_S%C3%B6zl%C3%BC%C4%9F%C3%BC_ . Useful because it is in Arabic script.
Dari Resources
Baker, Adam. 2017. A Learner’s Grammar of Dari. International Assistance Mission. https://www.iam-afghanistan.org/lcp/downloads/dari-grammar.pdf
Baker, Adam. 2015. A Workbook for Reading and Writing Dari. 2nd ed. International Assistance Mission https://www.iam-afghanistan.org/lcp/downloads/workbook-2nd-edition.pdf
Baker, Adam. 2016. Dari (Afghan Persian).
‘Dari’ (2022) Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari (Accessed: 25 August 2022).
Fiorello, Christopher. 2019. Dari Phonology Presentation. PowerPoint and article. https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/85748
Glassman, Eugene. 2000. Conversational Dari: An introductory language course in Dari (Afghan Persian), 5th edn. Peshawar: The Interlit Foundation. A PDF is available at Google Scholar for the 1971 edition.
Entezar, Ehsan M. 2010. Dari Grammar and Phrase Book. www.Xlibris.com
Farhadi, Rawan A. G. (1975) The Spoken Dari of Afghanistan: A Grammar of Kaboli Dari (Persian) Compared to the Literary Language, Peace Corps, Kabul, OCLC 24699677
Farzad, Narguess, et. al. Persian Language Online. 2020. https://persianlanguageonline.com/introduction-to-afghan-persian-part-3-grammar/
https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/dari/ 2022. Dari grammar, loan words to English, status, structure, etc.
Wilson, J. Christy (Jr.). An Introduction to Colloquial Kabul Persian. Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center, 1966. 58 pages. This book was first published by the Army Language School in Monterey, California in 1955. A PDF is available online at https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/DLI/Persian-Farsi/Persian%20Kabul/Persian%20Kabul%20Books/Introduction%20to%20colloquial%20Kabul-Persian.pdf
Wilson, J. Christy (Jr.). One Hundred Afghan Proverbs. Peshawar: Interlit Foundation, 2002. 59 pages. A PDF is available online at https://vdoc.pub/download/christy-one-hundred-afghan-persian-proverbs-6arl7a4va330
