Since the birth of Urdu language to present time, the process of evolution of its spellings, words, meanings, and pronunciation is continued. In order to keep abreast of the mentioned evolution, dictionaries are the best source. Following are the ten different and interesting dictionaries.

“Asparantu Urdu Dictionary”, its editor is Saeed Ahmed Farani. It is a brief and unique dictionary in which words and their meanings are entered and rules are written for pronunciation.

Urdu Hareefa Mekalay’s editor is Alif-ul-Mehraas. It is a different and eccentric dictionary in which words are written under different topics. Words are selected on the basis of different references and every reference is explained in terms of antonyms instead of synonyms. In addition, numbers of alphabets are also written.

Aalmi Saqafat ke Lughat’s editors are Kawamay Anthony Apia and Henry Litigates Junior. This dictionary provides information about the history of culture, civilization, personalities and religion of five different continents.

Moeen-ul-aadaab Maroof ba Moeenul-Shura is edited by Munshi Ghulaam Hussain Khan Aafaaq Banarsi.  In this dictionary, editor has presented poems of eighty-five classical poets as nationally certified. In addition, language of origin of particular words, kingdom of numbers, popular meanings, singular plural and nicknames of poets are explained.

Lughat-ul-Shoera is edited by Hakeem Muhammad Ashraf Khokhar. In this dictionary, all words are written in the form of rhyming words. This dictionary is considered as the milestone not only for poetry but also for teaching of poetry.

Urdu Thesaurus is compiled by Rafique Khawar. In this dictionary, words are written according to topics instead of alphabetical order.  This dictionary is one of its kind, regarding finding words of similar type.

Mustalhat-e-Thugi is edited by Ali Akbar Alabadi  and Madoon Rasheed Hassan. This dictionary is compiled in terms of alphabetical order. The vocabulary of Looters’ language is presented. On the right side, word or term is written with colon and then meaning and its description is presented.

Awaleen Urdu Slang Lughat is edited by Dr. Rauf Pareakh. In this dictionary, slangs and informal words are presented in unique way.

Urdu Slang Lughat is edited by Qasim Yaqoob. This dictionary is about local, cheap and common words used in Urdu language.

Tazheekul Lughat is edited by Zahid Masood. In this dictionary, social, political, cultural and economical circumstances are discussed analytically with the help of words. The evolutionary process and events occurred are discussed ironically with the help of words and their meanings.

To summarize, from the brief analyses of the aforementioned dictionaries, it can be said that all the languages in the world, in every era are passing through any kind of evolution. As a result of which some unusual words reach the height of familiarity. On the other hand, few usual words loss their place in the language with the passage of time.