Urdu Lughat

 Shri Nathji wanted the Lughat Urdo Dictionary  and consulted when He wrote his Gazals. He wanted to find simpler words to use in his Gazals, so that common people can understand with Him. So he consulted this dictionary. In 1982 Shri Nathji is overjoyed at the large blue Persian Urdu Dictionary which R.K. Kohli brings for Shri Nathji from the Jama Masjid area of Delhi. Shri Nathji had asked him to search for such a dictionary which he called a “Loghaat” in Urdu.
However the dictionary is too big for him to handle and he makes do with a small red dictionary with very fine print, which remains with Shri Nathji till his last days, on the table next to his bed.
Priya Nath often wondered why Shri Nathji needed the dictionary since he was a Master of the language. But Shri Nathji was seeking simpler translations of Persian words which the common man could understand. The little red ‘gutkaa’ sized dictionary was Shri Nathji's little companion in bed on many occasions and was blessed by the touch of his divine hands, as no other book had been all his life. 

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Urdu Lughat is a 22-volume Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary which was published by the Urdu Dictionary Board under the editorship of Molvi Abdul Haq and others in 1977.
Urdu Lughat is composed in the style of the Oxford English Dictionary. It is the most comprehensive dictionary in the history of Urdu language. It is published by the Urdu Lughat Board, Karachi. The dictionary was edited by the honorary director general of the board Maulvi Abdul Haq who had already been working on an Urdu dictionary since the establishment of the Urdu Dictionary Board, Karachi, in 1958. In 2019, the board prepared a concise version of the dictionary in two volumes. The dictionary also has an internet version and a mobile app with a sound option