Suryaraya Andhra Nighantuvu

Sri Suryaraya Andhra Nighantuvu is a Telugu language dictionary. It is the most comprehensive monolingual Telugu dictionary. It was published in eight volumes between 1936 and 1974. It was named after Rao Venkata Kumara Mahipati Surya Rau, the zamindar of Pitapuram Estate who sponsored the first four volumes of the dictionary.

The dictionary features over 1.1 lakh words with information about each entry like word origin, meaning, synonyms and historical usage in literature. A team of 40 scholars contributed to the dictionary over a period of six decades from 1911 to 1974. The first four volumes were published by Andhra Sahitya Parishad, Kakinada.