Persian Dictionaries
Aryanpur Kashani, Abbas.
The combined new Persian-English and English-Persian dictionary /
by Abbas Aryanpur Kashani and Manoochehr Aryanpur Kashani.
Lexington, Ky., USA : Mazda Publishers, 1986.
Call #=PK6378 .A79 1986 (Non-circulating)
Call #=PK6378 .A79 1986 (Non-circulating)
Aryanpur Kashani, Abbas. The concise English-Persian dictionary. Tehran, Iran : Amir Kabir Publishing Corp., 1981. Call #=PK6379 .A683 1981 (Also see entry below in ONLINE Persian Dictionaries.)
Aryanpur, ManoochehrDihkhuda, Ali Akbar, 1879-1955. Lughatnamah / talif-i Dihkhuda ; [zir-i nazar-i Muhammad Muin]. Tihran : Chapkhanah-i Majlis, 1325- [1947- ].
Dihkhuda, Ali Akbar, 1879-1955. Amsal va hikam, talif-i Ali Akbar Dihkhuda. [Tihran, Amir Kabir, 1973].
Steingass, Francis Joseph, 1825-1903. A comprehensive Persian-English dictionary, including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in Persian literature, being Johnson and Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English dictionary revised, enlarged, and entirely reconstructed by F. Steingass. London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd. [1930].
Online Persian Dictionaries
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Contemporary Persian
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~safari/masood/cgi-bin/ Aryanpur Kashani, Abbas. The Concise English-Persian dictionary. Persian-English & English-Persian (good for synonyms & multiple meanings; no pronunciation information for Persian words). (see online catalog for paper copies of this dictionary)http://www.farsidic.com FARSIDIC Persian-English dictionary. (a very popular dictionary; very easy to use but contains a few typos; no pronunciation information for Persian words. Persian input is via provided on-screen keyboard).
http://www.farsidic.com FARSIDIC English-Persian dictionary. (a very popular dictionary; very easy to use but contains a few typos; no pronunciation information for the Persian words).
http://www.aryanpour.com/ "Aryanpour" English to Persian and Persian to English. (Two options for input of Persian entries).
http://iranianlanguages.com/dictionary.php?eng-per IRANIAN LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS's English-Persian dictionary. Recommended for beginners. Includes audio feature, transliteration and three different methods of input. (This is the only online dictionary of contemporary Persian which shows how each Persian word is pronounced; unfortunately it does not contain as many words as the other dictionaries)
Classical Persian
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/steingass/ Steingass, Francis Joseph. A comprehensive Persian-English dictionary. Persian-English (Classical) (This site is under construction. You can search using either Persian in transliteration or English): (see online catalog for paper copies of this dictionary)
Related Dictionaries
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/platts/ Platts, John T. (John Thompson), 1830-1904. A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English. London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1884. (This site is under construction. You must use transliteration. This is a valuable resource for finding etymologies of Persian words found in Urdu.): (see online catalog for paper copies of this dictionary)
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/hobsonjobson/index.html Yule, Henry, Sir. Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. New ed. edited by William Crooke, B.A. London: J. Murray, 1903. All diacritics are viewable with a Unicode font. (A good resource for English words of Persian origin.): (see online catalog for paper copies of this dictionary)
Online Text Translator
http://www.parstranslator.net/eng/translate.htm Translate Text from English to Persian
Encyclopedias
Encyclopaedia Iranica / edited by Ehsan Yarshater London ; Boston : Routledge and K. Paul, [1982-. Call #=DS253 .E53 1982 (Volumes 1-9 = A-G) Connect to Encyclopaedia Iranica online: http://www.iranica.com (Online access is now free. Volumes 1-6 in PDF format and Volume 7 requires a font download.)