Farsi-English/English-Farsi (Persian) Concise Dictionary (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary)

Very helpful transliteration. It is a brief pocket sized dictionary, great for beginners and intermediate level. The way it’s organized, it takes seconds to find the word I need. I also have a large old-fashioned dictionary besides this one with tiny print for when I can’t find a word here. Occasional typos are present but the overall all worth of the dictionary is justified by its convenience.

Good book. Translations are reliable, and has helpful guide to sound out the words if new to Farsi.

It's not an exhaustive dictionary of usage and style. However, anyone who uses a language dictionary in only one direction is just asking to call himself an "army" when he wants to say game show "host" -- and accrue to himself the ridicule he has so richly earned. Also, the book's back cover says it's for "travelers, businesspeople or students of Farsi or English". In context, I'd not assume that "students" means Ph.D. candidates in Middle Eastern Studies. There are more scholarly works for you folks, anyway.I'm a beginning Farsi student and I'm a bit older (hence, equipped with external visual enhancements - "glasses"). One thing that I REALLY REALLY like about this book is that, in spite of its small size, the Farsi script is big enough to see. This has been a real issue for me studying Arabic and Farsi. 10 point English script is NOT equivalent to 10 point Arabic. So, for that one thing alone, I'm willing to overlook a myriad of other relatively minor shortcomings.That said, while I would have appreciated the short vowel markings, the English transliteration is good -- and probably more helpful to the beginner (admittedly, a bit more dangerous, too, but nobody will EVER think me a native-speaker, anyway.)It's a good, useable aid. It's basic, but it's aimed at a pretty basic audience. Each entry has 4 items as follows:E ~~> Fagility // ejilitii // n (Farsi script) // chaboki // (note, it shows a ^ over the a in chaboki)F ~~> E(farsi script) // rahnama (^ over 1st/last a's) // guide // gayd (w/ ^)That's what you get. Hope this helps!

When you study a language, you need a good dictionary. I use workbooks, and drawings aren't always enough to convey what words mean. This dictionary has Farsi-English and English-Farsi, with Farsi script and transliterations. A very useful book.

Horrible. Worthless. Useless. Take it from a persian :)Very limited vocabulary. Difficult to search as there is no clear deliniation of starting letters. If i had not waited too long to use it I would have returned it right away

Very Complete for it's compact size. Starts with teaching the Alphabet, and goes on to the more complex words, which is hard to findin a Dictionary of this size.

This is a very light dictionary and not very useful! For starters, the Persian to English side starts from left to right which doesn't make any sense as the Persian language writing is from right to left. Secondly, the phonetic guide (pronunciation keys) are hard to use as there no pauses or emphasis in any thing. It's just a long stream of letters! Very carelessly done!

This is a very good buy. Easy to use. In 2 languages for classroom use. Young Iranian student with learning disability picked it up and looked up a word quickly. Thanks.