An Inquiry about the Deficiencies of Dehkhoda's Amsal-o-Hekam

The first enormous and comprehensive dictionary on Persian adages، Amsal-o-Hekam، compiled by the great contemporary scholar، Ali Akbar Dehkhoda، is known as the most reliable and complete dictionary on Persian adages. His work caught the attention of many scholars and researches after publication and brought rapture to literature enthusiasts in such a way that many scholars were motivated to record adages. Nevertheless، after the rapture subsided in the next years، some researchers explored the different aspects of this collection and pointed out some of its deficiencies، such as having some adages about races as being superior to Iranian race، not having translations for Arabic adages، containing unknown adages، having no preface or introduction، and containing no obscene words and adages. My attempt in this enquiry is to study the views expressed on this precious work.