''Mo'in Encyclopedic Dictionary '' ( fa, فرهنگ معین ''Farhang-e Mo'īn'') is the second largest

Persian language Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken a ...

encyclopedic dictionary. It was collected and integrated by Mohammad Mo'in.

History

The ''Mo'in Encyclopedic Dictionary'' was collected during a 19-year period (1947-1966) under the administration of Mohammad Mo'in. After his death in 1971, the dictionary has been completed by

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. Finally, it was published in 1972 by Amirkabir publications in

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, in six volumes – four volumes for Persian words and expressions, and two volumes for proper nouns. The dictionary has not been updated since its first publishing, but has been reprinted many times.

References

Persian Wikipedia article
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