Sahi Shabda

{{Short description|Nepali thesaurus by Fr. William Bourke SJ}} {{Infobox book | author = Father William Bourke SJ | language = Nepali | country = Nepal | genre = Thesaurus | published = 1995 | pub_date = 1995 | awards = Madan Puraskar | title_orig = सही शब्द | orig_lang_code = ne | image = Sahi Shabda.jpg }}

'''''Sahi Shabda''''' ({{Langx|ne|सही शब्द}}) is a 1995 Nepali language thesaurus written by Canadian Jesuit Father William Bourke SJ.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-12-01|title=मदन पुरस्कार विजेता विलियम बर्कको दार्जलिङमा निधन|url=https://mail.everestdainik.com/2019/12/292163/|access-date=2021-12-22|website=Everest Dainik - News from Nepal|language=en-GB|archive-date=2021-12-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222155702/https://mail.everestdainik.com/2019/12/292163/|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is the first comprehensive Nepali thesaurus. It was published 1995 and won the Madan Puraskar, 2051 B.S.; the highest literary honor of Nepal.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Desk|first=Author: TheDC News|date=2019-12-01|title=Father William Bourke SJ - Winner of Madan Puraskar|url=https://thedarjeelingchronicle.com/father-william-bourke-sj-winner-of-madan-puraskar/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=The Darjeeling Chronicle|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=फादर विलियम बर्क – मदन पुरस्कार गुठी|url=https://guthi.madanpuraskar.org/people/father-william-burke/|access-date=2021-12-22|website=guthi.madanpuraskar.org}}</ref>

== About the author == Father William Bourke SJ was born in May 28, 1925 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He moved to Darjeeling as a Canadian Jesuit missionary in 1954 and served as a Headmaster for St. Robert's School, Darjeeling from 1981 to 1990. He also translated the Bible into Nepali and wrote a book called '''Proverbs for Today''<nowiki/>', a collection of Nepali and English proverbs. He died on November 29, 2019 of natural causes, aged 94.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Mackett|first=David|date=2020-05-19|title=Meet William Bourke, the Canadian who wrote the first comprehensive Nepali thesaurus|language=en-CA|work=The Globe and Mail|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-meet-william-bourke-the-canadian-who-wrote-the-first-comprehensive/|access-date=2021-10-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=मदन पुरस्कारबाट सम्मानित विलियम बर्कको निधन|url=https://www.onlinekhabar.com/2019/12/816092|access-date=2021-12-22|website=Online Khabar|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Reception == The book won the Madan Puraskar. The award is given annually for a book in Nepali language by Madan Puraskar Guthi.

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Category:Nepali language Category:Dictionaries Category:Nepalese books Category:Nepalese non-fiction books Category:Madan Puraskar–winning works