A Comperative Study of "Farhag-e-Aasfia" & "Ameer-ul-Lughaat".

Abstract

Syed Ahmed Dehlvi (1846-1918) has complied "Farhang-e-Aasfia". It is a four-volume dictionary. Its compilation started in 1868 and in the beginning, in 1878 the words of 'Alif Mamdooda' were published as "Armaghan-e-Dehli". It was later on published after different amendments and additions, under the title "Farhang-e-Aasfia". It is a complete dictionary which has entries from 'Alif' ( ) to Ye ( ) The compiler of "Ameer-ul-Lughaat" is Ameer Minaai (1829-1900). He belonged to Lacknow. In 1884 on the demand of Sir Alfered Lowel (Lieutenant Governor of Western Countries and Chief Commissioner of Oodh). Nawab Kalab Ali Khan gave the task of compiling an Urdu dictionary to Ameer Minaai. After eight years of "Armaghan-e-Dehli" in June 1884, Ameer Minaai published the sample of "Ameer-ul-Lughaat" which was based on the words and phrases of the word Aankh ( ). After that Ameer Minaai published two volumes (Ameer-ul-Lughaat comprises three volumes) Right after this, Syed Ahmed Dehlvi blamed Ameer Minaai for plagiarism and publicized it. This article presents the introduction of both the dictionaries and objections raised against Ameer-ul-Lughaat have been analyzed and a comparative study of both the dictionaries has been presented. The analysis confirms that the objections against Ameer Minaai and his dictionary are totally baseless. In this brief article, the comparison of the two dictionaries is limited to entries under ( ) Maqsora and Mamdoda, in the two works.