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Note by binmashish:

This dictionary is primarily intended for the native speakers of Urdu. In that respect, you get two for the price of one: primarily a dictionary of synonyms in English and secondarily their equivalents in Urdu. Still, you should take a look at it if you're interested in Urdu: this format and quality is very typical. Most Urdu dictionaries in India and Pakistan look like this. Unfortunately, the Urdu is not always as readable as it should be.

If you are not convinced, read the lovely description below and you'll feel compelled to consult it.

Description
"A complaint generally made by Indian Booksellers and Publishers of the present day is that dictionaries do not sell, for the numberless glossaries, keys and commentaries issued by school-masters and others leave nothing that a candidate may require for his examination unsaid, rendering the consultation of a dictionary an unproductive labour and a waste of time and
energy.

But if this be a grievance of booksellers and publishers, school-boys and schoolmasters have their grievance as well...

In this Dictionary, simple words have been used as much as possible to frame definitions which, it is hoped, men of all classes will fin dit easy to understand. The arrangement of words and their meanings is, indeed perfectly simple, the matter rich and full, and the price at which it is published very low, so that it cannot fail to make.itself acceptable to all.

To make this book attractive to school-boys, for whom it is mainly intended, the cloth cases in which the copies are bound up have been imported from England at considerable cost. Thus it will be found that nothing has been spared to make this undertaking a thorough success."

Digitized for Microsoft Corporation by the Internet Archive in 2007. From University of Toronto.
May be used for non-commercial, personal, research, or educational purposes, or any fair use. May not be indexed in a commercial service.

Hindi-Urdu, Dictionary