The aim of the article is a demonstration of the place and role of T. Zekhni’s book “From the History of Tajik Language Vocabulary”; the author of the book in question is S. Aini’s pupil, renowned scientist of the XX-th century, lexicographer, lexicologist, recognized literary critic; he wrote also the book “The Art of Word” devoted to poetics, this work turned into a table-book for several generations of philologists at once. The object of research is subjected to versatile analysis, it is compared with two well-known scientific productions in Tajik lexicography published by the scientists-lexicologists from the Tajik State University named after V. I. Lenin (Dushanbe, 1981, under the editorship of Professor D. T. Tazhiyev) and the work by K. Tahirova (Dushanbe, 1967). The conclusion is made that in spite of being different from one another in the plane of comprised problems of lexicology and their functions these researches to some extent could have filled in the gaps of descriptive and historic lexicology referring to Tajik linguistics of the second half of the XX-th century.
lexics, modern Tajik lexicology, historic lexicologym, Turakul Zekhni, Dari-Tajik language, “From the History of Tajik Language Vocabulary”
1. Zehni Turaqul. From the History of Tajik Lexics. – Dushanbe: Knowledge, 1987. – 236 pp.
2. Zehni Turaqul. Art of Speech. – Dushanbe: Man-of-Letters, 2007. – 400 pp.
3. Zehni Turaqul. Talented Poet of all over the World. – Dushanbe: Cognition, 1973. – 248 pp.
4. Zehni Turaqul. Some Wise Words. Collection of Articles. – Dushanbe: Cognition, 1984. – 160 pp.
5. Tohirova K. Lexicology of Modern Tajik Literary Language. – Dushanbe: Enlightenment, 1967.
6. Modern Tajik Literary Language. Lexics. Editor-in-charge: Prof. D.T. Tojieyv. – Dushanbe, 1981. – 103 pp.
7. Farrukha Zehni, Parvin Olimova. Zehni Is at the Bottom of Friends` Heart. – Dushanbe: Cognition, 2007. – 216 pp.
8. Tajik Language Dictionary ( from the X-th to the Beginning of the XX-th Centuries). In two volumes. – M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969.