This Urdu - English dictionary (Farhang or Lughat as said in Urdu) contains commonly used Urdu words in Songs, Ghazals, Urdu Poetry as well as day-today conversations (with origin from Arabic, Greek, Hindi, Persian, Sanskrit and Turkish), arranged according to English alphabets. This Urdu - English dictionary does not contain ALL the Urdu words but only approximately 14600 words at present. I have collected words for this Urdu - English dictionary from various sites on web, as a result, I might have made some mistakes in its compilation. Also please note that I am not claiming to be an authority on the subject. I would appreciate it if you can spot some errors and email them to me with the corrected versions, if possible.
This Urdu - English dictionary is focused for people who don't know Urdu that well and are not conversant with the Urdu alphabets and their English pronunciations (like capitalization of alphabets in middle of a letter or usage of "." or "'"). Some words appear more than once as they can be spelt in more than one way in English (though not all of them are correct), for example Zaahiraa and Zaahirah. This Urdu - English dictionary does not specify and give meanings according to their usage in grammar (i.e., adjective, noun, verb etc). Because of this reason, some of the meanings that occur together may not appear to be correct.
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Intekhab-o-Lughat :
The book is a collection of urdu poetry, ghazal,
shayaris, literature, urdu dictionary.
With the run-away success of earlier editions and to meet
the unprecedented for the book, it has been felt necessary
to come out with the 7th edition. The main purpose of this
series of URDU FOR PLEASURE is for popularising spoken
Urdu, which has a charismatic effect and a grace of its own...
The book is a collection of urdu poetry, ghazal,
shayaris, literature, urdu dictionary.
The book is a very good medium of learning urdu.
Born in Surat to a middle class family, even as an adolescent,
Sultan Nathani , the author, was fond of dramatics, art and literature. He
was an intellectual thinker, a rationalist and an ardent secularist...
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http://dmoz.org/Reference/Dictionaries/World_Languages/U/Urdu/