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Online dictionaries and thesauri

Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit

• [Digital Dictionaries of South Asia]

  Online dictionaries of a wide range of S. Asian languages. Part of the [Digital South Asia Library].

• [Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: DICT and HTML versions]

  Software engineering by Richard Mahoney:

  Base edn: Monier-Williams, M., A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philogically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899). Base e-text: Malten, Thomas, Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon (CDSL).

  The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) and HTML Versions of the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary are a prototype / development release. Both appear reasonably reliable, but still require widespread testing.

  They stem from a text file of the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon (CDSL). The CDSL, in turn, results from a project described in the Report on the Cologne Sanskrit Dictionary Project: ...

• [Louis Bontes' Monier Williams front end]

  Mwsdd.exe is an interface to the University of Köln's digital Sanskrit project, which is a digitized form of the Monier Williams dictionary. It is a windows program which you can locally install on your PC alongside with the huge 16MB dictionary file created by the university of Köln which contains about 160.000 entries.

• [Enlarged Electronic Version of Bloomfield's Vedic Concordance]

  The files contained in the freely downloadable archive presented in this site are the result of a research project undertaken by Marco Franceschini at the Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Turin: an enlarged electronic version of Bloomfield's 1906 A Vedic Concordance is now available, five years after the first electronic version of Bloomfield's original work.

• [Andre Signoret's French-Sanskrit dictionary]

  [File to be downloaded: fraskt00.exe], but go to the web site above to read more about it.

  An interactive French-Sanskrit dictionary and grammar in WinWord97 format. Complete, and freely available to Sanskrit scholars on the Internet. Also available at the above site: text and sound files for portions of the [Ramayana].

• [Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, Köln: Indological resources]

  Includes the searchable Monier-Williams Sanskrit English-Dictionary, Cappeller, the Tamil Text Thesaurus, the Online Tamil Lexicon, and other resources.

• [Gérard Huet's Sanskrit Site]

  It comprises a Sanskrit to French dictionary, freely available as a [pdf] document, or as a browsable hypertext document, accessible through a [search index]. Each entry of the dictionary links to a grammatical tool listing its morphological productions (declensions for substantives, conjugated and participial forms for roots). This grammatical tool is accessible as a stand-alone [grammarian]. Conversely, a [lemmatiser] attempts to tag inflected forms. Various other linguistic tools are available, such as a [sandhi engine], and an experimental [Sanskrit reader], including sandhi analysis, morphological tagging, and shallow parsing. The site also provides a small [portal] of Sanskrit relevant links.

• [Lennart Warnemyr's Site]

  I have written a sanskrit grammar using a semi-formal notation for reading online ... (Since it uses embeded fonts it's best viewed with IE5+. It's encoded in unicode though, so I suppose it's viewable in any browser that supports unicode.) It includes: Phonology - internal and external sandhi rules; Morphology - description of ALL roots in Whitney's ``The roots, verb-forms, and primary derivatives of the Sanskrit language'' (with basic meanings from Cappeller's A Sanskrit-English dictionary) - full paradigms (when possible) in pop-up windows - declension - conjugation - verbal nouns - pronouns - indeclinables; Syntax - with examples (sandi removed for clarity); Example texts

• [Sanskrit Dictionary Homepage]

  Provides an interactive, online seach Sanskrit-English and English-Sanskrit facility. Find the meaning of that verb! How do you say "net" in Sanskrit? Again, highly recommended.

• [Critical Pali Dictionary]

  A preliminary version of the Critical Pali Dictionary is now back online: cf. Jonathan Silk's message to the INDOLOGY list.

Tamil

• Tamil online dictionaries and other important resources are available at the [Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, Köln: Indological resources].

Tibetan

• [Dictionary of Tibetan Buddhist Terms]

  The dictionary was written by Erik Shmidt (aka Erik Padma Kunsang) of Rangjung Yeshe Publications. It is hosted on the web-site of Nitartha International, the Tibetan teachings preservation project.