Noorul Lughaat: a dictionary much underrated despite its merits hard work of writing an Urdu dictionary

“The only place where success comes before work is dictionary,” someone has said. But the hard work of writing an Urdu dictionary, either monolingual or bilingual, is something that is hardly, if ever, rewarded with success. It sounds strange but it is a fact that no Urdu dictionary has ever been able to escape the wrath of critics and scholars. Though some lapses might have occurred in these dictionaries as lexicography is a meticulous and backbreaking job, the critics have been a bit

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