A Critical Analysis of Monolingual Persian Dictionaries: A User Satisfaction Perspective

User satisfaction has unfortunately been neglected in the compilation of Persian dictionaries. This paper was aimed to study five general monolingual Persian dictionaries، namely Dehkhoda، Mo’in، Amid، Farhang-e Farsi-ye Emrooz and Sokhan in terms of user satisfaction. A questionnaire، based on Assi’s (1995) research project، has been designed and users were asked to answer the questions. Some of the participants were also randomly interviewed. The collected data were analyzed statistically، and tests such as the chi-square significance test، were applied. The objectives of this study were to identify the users'' needs along with the relationship between their needs and social variables such as their age، level of education and also field of study. Upon analysis، it became clear that the users'' field of study was the only determining factor in the amount of dictionary use، the success rate in finding information and in user’soverall satisfaction.