Modern Persian lexicography with a look at its historical background

The history of lexicography in Iran is very old and dates back to two thousand years ago at the time of compiling dictionaries for Middle Persian. In this article, after looking at the long and fruitful tradition of Persian lexicography, its current situation and new developments are described. In the last three or four decades, lexicography in Iran, along with Western countries, has changed from a traditional activity to a scientific and professional field. This area of applied linguistics tries to improve the form and content of dictionaries by using the following factors: (1) The latest theoretical and practical achievements of linguistics in the field of lexicography, (2) Computational and information technology methods, and (3) corpus-based approach to lexicography.