Review of the “Explanatory Dictionary of the Tatar Language” (2015-2021).

Abstract

This paper reviews the six-volume explanatory dictionary of the Tatar language (“Tatar telenen anlatmaly suzlege”; 2015–2021). Continuing the best traditions of Tatar and Russian lexicography, a team of scientists from the Institute of Language, Literature and Art named after G. Ibragimov, the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, compiled a new fundamental explanatory dictionary of the Tatar language. The dictionary includes current vocabulary and phraseological units of the modern Tatar literary language, terms and names from various fields of science and their interpretations. Neologisms are also found here, those formed with the help of the word-formation means of the Tatar language, as well as historicisms and borrowed words, actively used in the general literary language. The dictionary contains about 70 thousand words and 10 thousand phraseological units.