Mohazzabul Lughat is an Urdu Language Encyclopedia.

Padam Shree Syed Mohammed Meerza Saheb, “Mohazzab Lucknowi” the renowned elegiac

Elegiac

Elegiac refers either to those compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter has two lines, making it a couplet: a line of dactylic hexameter, followed by a line of dactylic pentameter...

 poet and celebrated figure in Urdu literature

Urdu literature

Urdu literature has a long and colorful history that is inextricably tied to the development of that very language, Urdu, in which it is written...

 compiled the “Mohazzab-ul-Lugat “ in fourteen volumes.
He devoted sixty years in compiling this dictionary

Dictionary

A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...

. On completion of the 7th volume, the Government of India

Government of India

The Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...

awarded him the title of Padam shree in 1971. He was also awarded the title of “Baba-e-Adab” in 1973.

Mohazzab-ul-Lugat is a unique and voluminous dictionary containing fourteen volumes and the compiler tried his best to bring all the difficult words and phrases which are often needed by readers. Every conceivable word which may create doubt or difficulty has been explained by the befitting usage of words with examples obtain by authorised authors and poets.
Each volume of this dictionary contains 500 pages and is attractively well bounded. The size of each volume is 18 x 22/4 having three columns in each page.