There are two primary sources for determining the correct romanization of Persian:
- ALA-LC Romanization Table for Persian (or Tajik in Cyrillic script)
- Muʻīn’s Farhang-i Fārsī mutavassit (1982)
NOTE:
When romanizing Persian, the Library of Congress follows the table. If there is doubt as to how a word should be romanized, Muʻīn’s Farhang-i Fārsī mutavassit is consulted first.
- If two alternative possibilities for romanization are offered, the first (non-bracketed) option is preferred.
- The vowels ‘e’ and ‘o’ in the romanization given in Muʻīn represent the short vowels ‘i’ and ‘u’ in ALA-LC romanization, respectively. The diphtong ‘ey’ is equivalent to ‘ay’.
- The vocalization found there trumps that of other dictionaries.
- If no relevant entry is found in Muʻīn, other dictionaries may be consulted, if appropriate.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATIONS OF SOME STANDARD DICTIONARIES
فرهنگ فارسى متوسط : شامل يك مقدمه وسه بخش : لغات, تركيبات خارجى, اعلام … / تأليف محمد معين. تهران : انتشارات امير كبير, 1360
Farhang-i Fārsī mutavassiṭ : shāmil-i yak muqaddamah va sih bakhsh : lughāt, tarkībāt-i khārijī, iʻlām … / taʾlīf-i Muḥammad Muʻīn. Tihrān : Intishārāt-i Amīr Kabīr, 1360 [1982]
لغتنامه / على أكبر دهخدا ؛ زير نظر محمد معين و جعفر شهيدي. تهران : مؤسسه انتشارات و چاپ دانشگاه تهران : با همكاري انتشارات روزنه, 1372-1373
Lughatʹnāmah / ʻAlī Akbar Dihkhudā ; zīr-i naẓar-i Muḥammad Muʻīn va Jaʻfar Shahīdī. Tihrān : Muʼassasah-ʼi Intishārāt va Chāp-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān : Bā hamkārī-i Intishārāt-i Rawzanah, 1372-1373 [1993-1994]
دايرة المعارف فارسى / به سرپرستى غلام حسين مصاحب. [تهران] : فرانكلين, 1345-
Dāʾirat al-maʻārif-i Fārsī / bih sarparastī-i Ghulām Ḥusayn Muṣāḥib. [Tehran] : Firānklīn, 1345- [1966- ]
Dari-English dictionary = Qāmūs-i Darī-Inglīsī / [Mohammad Nasim Neghat et al.]. Omaha, Neb. : Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha, c1993
فرهنگ فارسى تاجيكى / زير نظر، محمدجان شكورى [و ديگران] ؛ برگردان از خط سيريليک و تصحيحات محسن شجاعى. تهران : فرهنگ معاصر, 1385
Farhang-i Fārsī-i Tājīkī / zīr-i naẓar, Muḥammadʹjān Shukūrī [and others] ; barʹgardān az khaṭṭ-i Sīrīlīk va taṣḥīḥāt-i Muḥsin Shujāʻī. Tihrān : Farhang-i Muʻāṣir, 1385 [2006]