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[[Image:Sardar Mohammad Khan.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Sardar Muhammad Khan]]

'''Sardar Mohammad Khan''' (1 January 1915 – 26 May 1998), also known as "SMK", was a [[Pakistan]]i [[research]]er of [[linguistics]].<ref name=Tribune>{{cite web|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/826746/the-pathan-who-wrote-the-largest-punjabi-dictionary/ |title=The Pathan who wrote the largest Punjabi dictionary|publisher= The Express Tribune (newspaper)|date=24 January 2015|accessdate=10 May 2018}}</ref><ref name=Dawn/>

==Early life==
He was born in a [[Pathan]] family at Basti Danishmandan ([[Jalandhar]]). After doing his secondary and higher secondary education, he did his B.A degree from the [[University of the Punjab]], [[Lahore]] in 1934.<ref name=punjabian/> He joined united Indian Army as a civilian employee and retired as a civilian gazetted officer from the [[Pakistan Army]] General Headquarters (G.H.Q.), [[Rawalpindi]] in 1969. Being a government servant, under the rules, he could not publish any book until his retirement.<ref name=Tribune/><ref name=punjabian/>

==Work==
Sardar Muhammad Khan gave fifty years of his life to writing the largest Punjabi-Urdu dictionary in the history of Punjabi language. This dictionary, which has been published by the Pakistan Academy of Letters along with Punjabi Adbi Board in 2009, consists of two volumes of more than 3500 pages each.<ref name=Tribune/><ref name=Dawn>[https://www.dawn.com/news/483447/punjabi-urdu-dictionary-launched Punjabi-Urdu dictionary launched] Dawn (newspaper), Published 11 August 2009, Retrieved 10 May 2018</ref><ref name=punjabian/>

It has been written with a scholarly approach, and besides giving meanings and explanations of Punjabi words in [[Urdu]], it also explains idioms, riddles, children's games, traditions, customs and religious terms. His love for dictionaries was evident from the fact that he remembered all the contents of Oxford Dictionary. He said, "it is the spelling that makes a dictionary: the pronunciation can differ from Peshawar to Sindh, but once you agree on a spelling, one word shall suffice for all". This Punjabi-Urdu dictionary has been proven to be the most detailed and authoritative on the subject as of 2015.<ref name=Tribune/>

Sardar Mohammad Khan had a command of [[Arabic]], [[English language|English]], [[Urdu language|Urdu]] and [[Persian language|Persian]] and could write and speak in these languages fluently. He had thoroughly studied the [[Quran]] and Islam and could speak in a scholarly manner on any aspects of this great religion with confidence.

He also wrote a book on phonetics, ''Aswatiat'' in Urdu. It is a very specialized book. He got it printed in a small press that he himself ran.

He never did anything half-heartedly. His love for songs that brought him into the subjects of sounds/phonetics and dialects, forms the basis of his philological research in literature. This love made him a scholar of music and he learned to sing 'raags' (a kind of music) and play the [[sitar]].

He had a great passion for working on his family history. He worked hard to give details of his ancestors' migration from one place to another with genealogy of the family of the past three hundred years.

==Bibliography==
* ''Kuliatee Aswaatiaat'' (1972)<ref name=punjabian>[http://www.punjabiandpunjab.com/Punjabi_Urdu_Dictionary.html Punjabi to Urdu Dictionary (Profile of Sardar Mohammad Khan in Punjabi language) on punjabiandpunjab.com website]</ref>
* ''Zabanein aur Rasmul Khat'' (1972)<ref name=punjabian/>
* ''Punjabi Zaban aur is ki Boliaan''<ref name=punjabian/>
* ''Kashmiri Zaban ka Qaeda''
* ''Gurmukhi Lipi''
* ''Punjabi Ucharan Dictionary''
* ''Tazkaratul Ansaar'' (Urdu translation)<ref name=punjabian/>

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.punjabiandpunjab.com/Punjabi_Urdu_Dictionary.html Punjabi and Punjab]
* [http://www.dawn.com/news/483447/punjabi-urdu-dictionary-launched Dawn Newspaper]

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