A
Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English
By-
John T. Platts
The
distinguishing features of this classic dictionary are: the space assigned to
the etymology of words; the arrangement of words which are similarly spelt but
differently derived into separate paragraphs according to their etymology; the
indicating postposition by means of which an indirectly transitive, or an
intransitive verb governs its object, and the change of meaning which
frequently takes place by the employment of different postpositions after a
verb (many verbs, in existing dictionaries, are given as transitive, thus
leading one to suppose that they govern the accusative case, whereas they
govern, it may be, the genitive, or the ablative, or the locative; e.g. gabza
karna is called a transitive verb, although it governs the locative); the
admission of numerous words which do not find place in the literary language.
This
volume is an invaluable accessory for the scholars of classical Urdu and Hindi.
John
Thompson Platts
(1830-1904) was born in Kolkata. He became head of Saugor School in 1859 and
headmaster of Benares College in 1861. After his retirement from India, Platt
was elected teacher of Persian at Oxford University in 1880. He wrote works on
the grammer of Hindustani and Persian and compiled a number of dictionaries of
Asian languages.
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