Azerbaijan English Dictionary

The dictionary, which was copyrighted by Prof. Dr. Ghadir Golkarian, is in compliance with the standards of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) System that devised by International Phonetic Association . The dictionary also comprises the contemporary sets that currently used in North-South Azerbaijan.

The dictionary also covers sound features, term sub-syntagms, origin of words and grammatical features.

Near East University Faculty Member Prof. Dr. Golkarian was presented his award by the Mayor of Tabriz Metropolitan Municipality.

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Some of the greatest inventions and contributions to intellectual history are made under conditions that are far from ideal. This can be said as well about the new Azerbaijani-English dictionary published in the new modified Latin script, which just came off the press this July.

Oruj Musayev, Vice Rector of the Institute of Foreign Languages and the dictionary's editor and compiler, describes what went into the making of this 45,000 term dictionary - an effort that took 25 years. This new dictionary is a landmark in the linguistic history of Azerbaijanis. It's the first time that a comprehensive bilingual Azerbaijani-English dictionary has been published in the new Latin alphabet. For the 7.5 million Azerbaijanis who grew up in the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, undoubtedly it will have a profound effect on their learning English. In the past, they always had to learn English as a third language after mastering Russian. And for the 25 million Azerbaijanis living in Iran and abroad, it will serve as a benchmark for their pride and ethnic identity.

Left: Dictionary Compiler Professor Oruj Musayev with Azerbaijan International's Editor, Betty Blair

Professor Oruj Musayev, compiler of the new Azerbaijani-English dictionary, with Betty Blair, Editor of Azerbaijan International. Blair helped identify funding for the project through Exxon which sponsored versions in Cyrillic (1996) and Latin (1998).

Nor did we have audio-visual materials like they do today - no TV programs, no tapes, no videos - nothing. I myself have never, even to this day, had a chance to travel outside of Azerbaijan to visit an English-speaking country. Our one textbook, "Shivadshev" named in honor of its compiler, was written in Russian. We were in desperate need of a bilingual dictionary and that's when I made up my mind to someday write one myself. That was in the 1950s.

Difficulties

I actually started compiling such a dictionary in the 1960s. Very few people supported the idea. Everyone thought that Russian was sufficient. "We don't need an Azerbaijani-English dictionary," they argued. I often thought about giving up on the idea but thank God, I was born with a stubborn will.

Compiling any dictionary is exacting and tedious work. For me, it was even more difficult because I didn't have much extra time as I was supervising numerous postgraduate students at the teachers' training college where I headed the English Grammar Department. Of course, back then, we didn't have access to computers either, and so the job was done on two manual typewriters: English and Azeri Cyrillic. I can't tell you how many restless days and sleepless nights it took to complete this ocean of toil. Finally, when the dictionary was ready, I faced another difficulty - money. By then, the Soviet Union had collapsed and we were suffering from severe economic difficulties. No longer could I count on the State to finance the project, and I didn't have enough money to print it on my own.

Breakthrough

It was a happy day in autumn 1995 when I happened to meet Betty Blair, Executive Editor of Azerbaijan International, who took a great interest in the project. She, in turn, persuaded Exxon to undertake its publication. And so it was that the Cyrillic version of the Azerbaijani-English dictionary came out a year later in 1996. John Hoholick, Exxon's first manager in Baku, was eager to support cross-cultural communication between Azeri and English, and so he arranged for Exxon to supply me with a computer. We were able to make further modifications and convert the Cyrillic text into the new Latin script. That's the version that just came off the press this summer in 1998 which was also sponsored by Exxon.

Now that the Latin version dictionary is out, my goal is to get it in the hands of as many people as possible, especially students. Along with other experts such as Edison Hajiyev and various others of the Foreign Language Institute who were involved with earlier stages of the dictionary preparation, we continue to press for the companion volume, an English-Azerbaijani dictionary and also for an abridged pocket version. For quite some time, Blair has been pushing for a CD-ROM version and a Spell Check in Latin which Exxon seems eager to undertake once the government establishes standardization for computer fonts. If we succeed, it will be one more enormous building block in fostering the use of our mother tongue and strengthening the identity of our nation.

This dictionary and phrasebook includes a dictionary of over 4,000 entries, plus an introduction to basic grammar and helpful phrasebook chapters covering subjects such as etiquette, the office, government, and food and drink. It is written entirely in the Roman alphabet.

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