Sayyid Aḥmad Dihlavī

Syed Ahmad Dehlvi (also written as Sayyid Aḥmad Dihlawī; 8 January 1846 – 11 May 1918) was an Indian Muslim scholar, linguist, lexicographer, philologist, educationist and an author of the Urdu language. He compiled the Asifiya dictionary.

Biography Syed Ahmad Dehlvi was born on 8 January 1846 in Delhi, Mughal India. He was the son of Hafiz Abd al-Rahman Mongheri, a descendant of Abdul Qadir Jilani. Farhang e Asifiya Hādi-un-Nisa Lughāt-un-Nisā ʻIlmullisān : yaʻnī, insān kī ibtidāʼī, darmiyānī aur ak̲h̲īr zabān Rusūm-i Dihlī Qiṣṣah-yi Mihr Afroz Munāẓirah-yi taqdīr-o-tadbīr, maʻrūf bih kunzulfavāʼid. Muhakama-e-Markaz-e-Urdu Muraqqa-e-Zuban-o-Bayan-e-Dehli

Opinions on Urdu vocabulary Syed Ahmed Dehlavi estimated in the Farhang-e-Asifiya Urdu dictionary, that 75% of Urdu words have their etymological roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit, and approximately 99% of Urdu verbs have their roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit. Urdu has borrowed words from Persian and to a lesser extent, Arabic through Persian, to the extent of about 25% to 30% of Urdu's vocabulary.

Legacy Zahrah Jafri wrote Sayyid Aḥmad Dihlavī: ḥayāt aur kārnāme .