Sindhi to English dictionaries are bilingual dictionaries which provide
English equivalents of
Sindhi language
Sindhi ( ; or , ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by more than 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official status, as well as by 1.7 million people in India, where it is a Scheduled languages of India, schedu ...
words.
Compilations of Sindhi and English terms were created for non-Sindhi speaking students in the early 1800s.
''The Journal of the Asiatic Society'' of Bengal, Calcutta published articles with vocabulary lists in 1836 and 1843.
Sindhi was one of the languages included in Leech's 1943 vocabularies of Indic languages for the British government.
In 1849, George Stack published a Sindhi to English dictionary consisting of 15,000 terms, followed in 1855 by an English to Sindhi dictionary with 17000 terms, in which he used the
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; in script: , , ) is an Indic script used in the Indian subcontinent. It is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental systems: alphabets, writing system), based on the ancient ''Brāhmī script, Brā ...
script.
Father G. Shirt published a Sindhi to English dictionary in 1879 in which he used
Arabic script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script), the second-most widel ...
and which became the basis for a number of other versions, including
Parmanand Mewarm's 1910 and 1933 works.
Beginning in the 1960s, Deccan College began work
on a dictionary with both Devanagari and Arabic characters which included contemporary usage and cross references.
was the chief editor of the '' Oxford English-Sindhi Dictionary''.
In addition to standard dictionaries, concise dictionaries have been compiled by Shahani.
''Yadgar Sindhi to English Dictionary'' is a reference work edited by A. D. Shah and Zulfiqar Ali Bhatti and published by Yadgar Publishers.It is a bilingual dictionary and contains over 8000 English meanings of Sindhi words.
Yadgar Sindhi to English Dictionary - The Sindh Times Feb. 02, 2004
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Electronic dictionaries and software that converts Sindhi into English and English into Sindhi have also been developed.
References
English bilingual dictionaries
Sindhi language
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