Persian Romanization

There are two primary sources for determining the correct romanization of Persian:

  1. ALA-LC Romanization Table for Persian (or Tajik in Cyrillic script)
  2. 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.

  1. If two alternative possibilities for romanization are offered, the first (non-bracketed) option is preferred.
  2. 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’.
  3. The vocalization found there trumps that of other dictionaries.
  4. 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]

Scroll to Top