Sahi Shabda
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| Author | Father William Bourke SJ |
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| Original title | सही शब्द |
| Language | Nepali |
| Genre | Thesaurus |
| Published | 1995 |
Publication date | 1995 |
| Publication place | Nepal |
| Awards | Madan Puraskar |
Sahi Shabda (Nepali: सही शब्द) is a 1995 Nepali language thesaurus written by Canadian Jesuit Father William Bourke SJ.[1] 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.[2][3]
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', a collection of Nepali and English proverbs. He died on November 29, 2019 of natural causes, aged 94.[4][5]
