A Review on Two Little French-Persian Dictionaries

The first French-Persian bilingual dictionary was published in Paris by John-Baptiste Nicolas in 1885. French language started with Safavid dynasty in Iran but spread out in the time of Naser Al-Din Shah Qajar. Bilingual dictionary continued to publish in twenty century by John Schlimmer. He published in 1874 a French-Persian dictionary. The number of bilingual French-Persian dictionaries that are published in French and in Iran are more than 130. Two examples of these kinds of dictionary that was released in three recent decades are “Petit dictionnaire des expressions et proverbs” and “Petit dictionnaire de la langue verte” by Mohamad Taghi Ghiyasi. In this paper these books were criticized by the point of view of content, title, entry, data, manner of data collection and the definition.