Investigating the principles of dictionary writing and word selection processes(The subject of the study: The book "The dictionary of Arabic/Persian literary words and terms")

The pioneers of every scientific field always compile the first dictionary of terms for that science with the creation of new words, terms and combinations, so that they can create a way for understanding and expansion of that science, since the best and the fastest way to learn the exact equivalent of terms is to refer to the dictionary of terms specified for that science. Therefore, word selection and equivalence for terms in the field of specialized knowledge is of significant importance. Since there are lots of words, terms and interpretations in the field of literature and each one is related to one of the subjects and literacy techniques such as innovation, prose, rhetoric, criticism, linguistics, etc., and each of these collections has many subcategories therefore, finding the equivalence of these combinations and terms is one of the problems and challenges of bilingual Arabic-Persian lexicography in the field of literary terms. By explaining the morphological processes of word selection and equivalence in the dictionary of Arabic/Persian literary words and terms, this essay tries to analyze the important principles and criteria in the specialized lexicography of words and literary terms. Analyzing the Arabic and Persian word selection process of this book indicates that, despite the lack of some essential apparent and content components, the most used method among the microstructure components for word selection of Persian literary terms is the borrowed translation method and for Arabic terms is the derivation and combination method.