This is a Persian (Farsi) lexicon of more than 40,000 entries of non-inflected forms of words. Each word is transliterated based on the proposed framework from MBROLA (Text-To-Speech synthesizer). The database includes a large variety of descriptors for each entry (plural, homograph, ...). This lexicon has been made out from a corpus of newspaper publications collected during a period of six months from the Shargh Newspaper, a publication containing articles from diverse topics: art, culture, policy, social, sport, etc. Due to its coverage, this lexicon can be in particular interesting for Persian TTS systems, as the pronunciation of Persian words cannot be derived directly from their transcription due to the omission of short vowels in Persian writing systems. The number of records is distributed as follows: Adjectives: 11,955 Adverbs: 2,047 Classifiers: 164 Conjunctions: 129 Indexes: 85 Names: 36,651 Numbers: 88 Verb-Past Stem: 455 Verb-Present Stem: 435 Prepositions: 223 Pronouns: 141 Semi-Sentence: 352 The lexicon is provided in a MS Access database.

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