Mahshid Moshiri

Mahshid Moshiri (Persian: مهشید مشیری‎) is an Iranian novelist and lexicographer. She graduated from the Sorbonne with a PhD in linguistics. She is the author of the first Persian Phono-Orthographic Dictionary. She is also an encyclopedist, and has served as the Research Vice President of The Great Persian Encyclopedia Foundation.^[1]

Selected works

Persian dictionaries

• Persian Dictionary (alphabetical & analogical). 5th ed, Soroush, Tehran, 2004.
• An Unabridged Persian Dictionary (Fascicle 1). GPE, Tehran. 2003.
• Persian General Dictionary (in 202 volumes). 2nd ed, Alborz, Tehran, 2004.
• Concise Persian Dictionary. 6th ed, Alborz, Tehran, 2003.
• Collegiate Persian Dictionary. 2nd ed, Peykan, Tehran, 2003.

Bilingual dictionaries

• Dictionary of the Verbs (French-Persian). 2nd ed, Soroush, Tehran, 2004.
• Atlas English-Persian Dictionary (5 volumes), Editor-in-Chief, Aryan-Tarjoman, Tehran, 2007.

Specialized dictionaries

• Persian Phono-Orthographic Dictionary. Ketabsara, Tehran, 1987.
• Dictionary of European Words in Persian. Alborz, Tehran, 1993.
• Dictionary of Love & Gnosticism. Alborz, Tehran, 1997.
• Dictionary of Reduplication, assimilation & repetition in Persian. Agahan-e Ideh, Tehran, 1999.
• Thematic Dictionary of Saadi's Lyrics. Hormozgan University Press, 2000.
• Thematic Dictionary of Farrokhi Yazdi’s Lyrics. Agahan-e Ideh, Tehran, 2000.
• Rime & Rhythm Dictionary of Saadi's Lyrics. Hormozgan University Press, 2001.
• A Persian Dictionary of the Youngsters’ Vernacular. Agahan-e Ideh, Tehran, 2002.
• Dictionary of Persian poets from the apparition of Dari Persian until today (realized in French language. Aryan-Tarjoman. Tehran. 2007.

Novels

• Yad-e Jaran (The Memories of Childhood). Alborz, Tehran, 1998.
• There is a fire … Hamshahri, Tehran, 2003.
• The anemone has flowered everywhere. (Iranian novel in French). Aryan-Tarjoman, Tehran, 2007.

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