Before I assess the future path of lexicography, it is relevant to reflect on the original motivation that drove people to want, make, and finally use dictionaries. Rather uncontroversially, ...

A negative thing about Urdu dictionaries is that the writer of an Urdu dictionary has rarely been spared by critics as most of the Urdu dictionaries have been found lacking in one area or another.

Lexicography – the art and science of dictionary-making – and semantics – the study of meaning in language – are intertwined disciplines that illuminate how words are organised, defined and used.