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Uzbek Eng\eng Uzbek Concise Dict [Paperback]

Kamran Khakimov (Author)
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Publication Date: Dec 31 1990 | Series: Hippocrene Concise Dictionary
--8,000 total entries --Phonetic pronunciation for each language --Concise, easy-to-use format --Ideal for travelers, businesspeople, and students of English or Uzbek

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Kamran M Khakimov

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2.0 out of 5 stars helpful to some degree Dec 1 2002
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
I had a few embarrassing experiences with this tool in my experience living in Sir-Daria & the Farg'ona Valley. The numerous outright typos and mistaken translations proved interesting. Better than learning the language empty handed. Luckily I had good teachers.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money! April 18 2002
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Where to start? First of all, this book is really a lexicon, not a dictionary. Second, many of the given definitions are actually secondary meanings, and sometimes they are just plain wrong. Third, there are so many misspellings that it gets downright distracting.

Some examples: The author says sho'h means 'maughty, mischievous.' What? And the next entry sho'hlik means 'caper, frolic, prauk.' So I guess a sho'h sho'hlik is a maughty prauk, whatever that is! One of my favorites: He says the Uzbek word for 'mistake' is hato. Well, he's mistaken; it's xato (the x being the equivalent of the Russian kh). Another favorite: 'Christmas' is defined as xristyonlar bayrami, which literally means 'the holiday of Christians' and which would be meaningless to the average Uzbek. (Interestingly, Easter is 'the holiday of Christians and Jews.') But my absolute favoite (thus far) is his definition of somsa, which is really a small pie filled with meat and onions. He defines somsa as a 'sinker'!

If you're headed for Uzbekistan, leave this book behind. Use the AudioForum material, though it's somewhat "Turkified." If that's too expensive for you, use hand signals or speak Russian (or Tajik). But if you absolutely have to take this so-called dictionary along, also take along an Uzbek-English dictionary (like Krippes, though it's flawed too) to verify Khakimov's definitions before using them. If you ask me, this book is a sinker!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hey, I used it a lot! Oct 18 2001
By Nadroj
Format:Paperback
Okay. I was only in Uzbekistan for a short time. But I found this dictionary to be helpful as a back-pocket item when shopping or sitting in cafes. I even used it when talking to and listening to the family with whom I was staying in the town of Qibray. I've heard the complaints about this reference -- that it's more Turkish than Uzbek -- but I was not discussing world politics or moral dilemmas. I was ordering food and inquiring about the prices of bananas in bazaars. And if you need simple vocabulary to function in communicative acts, this book does the job.
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