About the Online English-Persian Dictionary Program

The modest English-Persian dictionary on the previous page is a transliteration-based, platform-independent, easy-to-use program. As the transliteration scheme, it uses the "mikhi" alphabet, first designed by Mash Cheragh-Ali in his famous Gerdsooz program. Images are used to display Persian words, so that there is no need to download any fonts, although there is also the option of using standardized or dynamic fonts. The display flexibility makes the program platform-independent, so that you can also use it on Macintoshes and Unix-based machines.

How to use this program

To find the Persian equivalent(s) of an English word, just type it in the space that is provided and press the [Persian] button.

To find the English equivalent(s) of a Persian word, you will need to enter the word in Latin alphabet. Use the clickable mapping table on the right side of the previous page as your transliteration guide. Just click on the corresponding letter in the table and the Latin equivalent of the Persian letter will appear in the space box. You may also enter the Latin letter by hand if you wish (note: case sensitive). When you are finished with entering the word, press the [English] button.
The program would produce all the English words in the database whose Persian equivalent contains your word, so it'd be best if you be as specific as you could.

Faces and Fonts

Choose from any of the following formats or fonts in the first page of the Online English-Persian Dictionary to view the text.

The Mikhi fonts are the first and most primitive Persian fonts developed for Persian communications over the internet. In fact, the text used by this program is in Gerdsooz code.
Another way of publishing in Persian/Arabic on the web is to use image files of Persian Alphabet. Our program contacts the site of the alphabet designers to receive and load these images for viewing the text; this may decrease the speed of the program depending on the speed of your internet connection and the traffic on designer's node.

Parsi Mail characters at ParsiMail.com.
Ashena characters at NetNative.

Alternatively, certain Persian fonts are available for viewing Persian/Arabic pages on the internet. We have used these fonts as Dynamic Fonts, but if you have problems using them, you need to install them on your machine to use them. Below you will find links to where you can find these fonts with installation instructions.

Persian Fonts, available at Neda . Available for Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms.
Sepehr Fonts can also be found at Neda .

Unicode consortium is the standard which is becoming increasingly popular for publishing in international characters on the internet. Currently, only users of Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher can view these fonts.
If your browser supportes unicode, this is what we recommend you to use.

Credits and disclaimer. The cgi script for this program is written by Masood Hashemi. The content is reportedly based on, but not identical to, Aryanpours' Concise Persian-English dictionary. The source of the database is not clear -- by one account, it is retrieved from the data of a DOS program by Bahman Sabouri (?), but this could not be independently confirmed, as various possible other sources might have been involved. However, to the best of our knowledge, no part of this program had been covered by US or international copyright laws when the program was written.
This program can be used only for personal academic or educational purposes. It may not be used for monetary profit. No liability is assumed.
The source files of this online program may be obtained upon request from the author.