DERA GHAZI KHAN: At a worl(place dealing with Arabic and other nationals in Saudi Arabia, one day Akbar Makhmoor started with the Seraiki letter `alif` and its definition in Urdu and Seraiki. Now, after almost 30 years, Makhmoor has complied hundreds of pages of Seraiki words, their meanings, phrasal verbs, idioms, proverbs, synonyms and usages. The unpublished dictionary, which he gladly calls `Seraiki Akhar Pooti` or Seraiki dictionary, complied by Makhmoor has 115,000 words.
He has never been to a college or a university. A tyre repairer by occupation, Makhmoor is looking for government`s or private sector`s help to get his work published.
`One doesn`t need to be in a university or a library to compile a dictionary,` Makhmoor says about his passion.
