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Now linked to more than 800 dictionaries in 160 different languages

 

Afrikaans

"ENGLISH-AFRIKAANS"/ "AFRIKAANS-ENGLISH" - Travlang "This dictionary database is from the freeware multilingual program Ergane. It contains over 3,500 terms." For more information see Travlang's Translating Dictionaries

 

American Indian Native Language

Anishinaabe/Ojibwe

"ENGLISH-ANISHINAABE (OJIBWE)" "ANISHINAABE (OJIBWE)-ENGLISH" - Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College, Cloquet, Minnesota "The dictionary entries are based on the book "An Ojibwe Word Resource Book" by Nyholm and Nichols, 1979, pub. Minnesota Archaelogical Society, BLDG 27 Fort Snelling, St. Paul, MN." For more information see Anishinaabe Language Resources or the Welcome to Rob's Ojibwe Language Pages

 

Maliseet/Passamaquoddy

"ENGLISH-MALISEET/PASSAMAQUODDY" "MALISEET/PASSAMAQUODDY-ENGLISH" - Electronic Text Centre, University of New Brunswick For more information see Maliseet and Micmac cultures; University of New Brunswick Electronic Text Centre or the University of New Brunswick Libraries

 

Mingo/Seneca

"ENGLISH-MINGO (SENECA)" "MINGO (SENECA)-ENGLISH" - J.F. Lachler, T. McElwain & S.M. Burke and hosted by the Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University Multimedia including Sound Files. "Mingo-EGADS (Extensible Grammar and Dictionary System) is a hypermedia information system designed to describe the Mingo language, for reference by Mingo speakers, learners, and linguists." For more information see EGADS or Department of Linguistics

 

Potawatomi

"ENGLISH-POTAWATOMI" "POTAWATOMI-ENGLISH" (NON-FRAMES) - S. Mckinney, Iowa State University For more information see Dictionary (FRAMES); Prairie Band Potawatomi Language or the Prairie Band Potawatomi Home Page

 

Taino

"ENGLISH-TAINO" "TAINO-ENGLISH" - The Taino Language Project "This is a project of the Taino Inter-Tribal Council Inc....We the Taino people of today, very proudly still speak our language in our Taino communities." For more information see The Taino Jatibonuco Tribal Council Longhouse Homepage or The Taino Inter-Tribal Council

 

Ulwa

"ENGLISH-ULWA" "ULWA ENGLISH" - Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT For more information see The ULWA Language Home Page

 

Australian Native

Kaliario/Gamilaraay

ENGLISH-KALIARIO/GAMILARAAY DICTIONARY - P. Austin & D. Natham and hosted by the ANU Social Science Server, Australian National University "The Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay language belongs to the Kamilaroi people and to Kamilaroi country, northern New South Wales, Australia" For more information see COOMBSWEB - ANU Social Science Server

 

Avesta (Iranian)

"ENGLISH-AVESTA" "AVESTA-ENGLISH" - J.H. Peterson, Avesta Web Server For more information see Avesta - Zoroastrian Archives or Avesta Orgainzation, J. & C. Peterson

 

Belarusian/Bielaruska

"ENGLISH-BELARUSIAN" "BELARUSKIJA-SLOUNIK" - R. Hajduk, Frankfurt, Germany

 

Bengali

"ENGLISH-BANGALI" - Z. Kazi, Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories, University of Delaware For more information see Bangladesh: Survival Bengali or Zunaid Kazi's Home Page

 

Bulgarian

"ENGLISH-BULGARIAN" "BULGARIAN-ENGLISH" - V. Alexiev, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada "The dictionary is (C) 1991 STEMO Co, Gabrovo, Bulgaria. Pronunciation from Oxford English Disctionary 2nd ed."

 

Chechen/Ingush

"ENGLISH-INGUSH" "INGUSH-ENGLISH" - J. Nichols, Slavic Department, University of California, Berkeley For more information see Ingush grammar, dictionary, and texts

 

Chinese

"ENGLISH-CHINESE" "CHINESE-ENGLISH" - Richard Wong (Sai Ho), Griffith University For more information see Welcome to Frog Home Page

"ENGLISH-CHINESE" "CHINESE-ENGLISH" - E. E. Peterson Fonts are not necessary. Currently includes: Character Dictionary; Flashcards; Add Pinyin; Chinese GIFs; Pinyin Converter; Big5 <-> GB; Web Big5 - GB; File Big5 <-> GB; Calendar and Converter. For more information see Eric E. Peterson's Home Page

"ENGLISH-CHINESE" MEDICAL DICTIONARY - G. Loi "This is a translation dictionary between English and Chinese terms. The terms are listed according to their alphabetical order in English or Pin-yin in Chinese.

 

Czech/Cesky

"ENGLISH-CZECH" "CESKY-ANGLICKO" - Authors: O. Vrtel & M. Vit, Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic

"ENGLISH-CZECH" "CESKY-ANGLICKO" - LangSoft Multilingual Dictionary, InterSoft, Czech Republic Other Dictionaries include: Czech to German, French, Italian, Spanish & Russian

"ENGLISH-CZECH" "CESKY-ANGLICKO" - Moravia Translations A.S., Czech Republic For more information see Moravia Translations A.S.

 

Danish

"ENGLISH-DANISH" "DANSKE-ENGELSK" AND "DUTCH, FINNISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, SPANISH, SWEDISH & PORTUGUESE" - ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels, Luxembourg VERY EXTENSIVE. "EURODICAUTOM is a electronic dictionary of terminology containing terms, acronyms and abbreviations of all the aspects of the European Union Activities." For more information see EURODICAUTOM

"ENGLISH-DANISH" "DANSKE-ENGELSK" AND "DUTCH, FINNISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, LATIN, SPANISH, SWEDISH & PORTUGUESE" - Felix Gaehtgens and Jens Kurlanda Old Version of ECHO - EURODICAUTOM.

 

Dutch/Hollandse

"ENGLISH-DUTCH"/ "HOLLANDSE-ENGELSE" AND "DUTCH, FINNISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, SPANISH, SWEDISH & PORTUGUESE" - ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels, Luxembourg VERY EXTENSIVE. "EURODICAUTOM is a electronic dictionary of terminology containing terms, acronyms and abbreviations of all the aspects of the European Union Activities." For more information see EURODICAUTOM

"ENGLISH-DUTCH" "HOLLANDSE-ENGELSE" AND "DUTCH, FINNISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, LATIN, SPANISH, SWEDISH & PORTUGUESE" - Felix Gaehtgens and Jens Kurlanda Old Version of ECHO - EURODICAUTOM.

"ENGLISH-DUTCH"/ "HOLLANDSE-ENGELSE" - Travlang "This dictionary database is from the freeware multilingual program Ergane. It contains over 11,000 terms." For more information see Travlang's Translating Dictionaries

 

Egyptology/Hieroglyphics

THE COMPLETE HIEROGLYPHICA - Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Multimedia Dictionaries & Glossaries (Text & Images). For more information see Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research or the Universiteit Utrecht

Other Dictionaries & Glossaries include

Multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus

Coffin Text Word Index

Prospographia Aegypti (with all names in hieroglyphs)

 

TRANSFER YOUR NAME, LETTERS OR SENTENCE TO HIEROGLYPHIC - Egypt's Culture Net, Cairo, Egypt Multimedia (Text & Images). For more information see Hieroglyphic Alphabet; Ancient or Egypt's Culture Net

 

Estonian/Eestlane

"ENGLISH-ESTONIAN" "EESTLANE-INGLISE" - M. Tiits, Institute of Baltic Studies For more information see Estonian Language Page

 

Finnish/Suomeksi

"ENGLISH-FINNISH" "SUOMEKSI-ENGLANNIN KIELI" Mofile word and term dictionaries.

"ENGLISH-FINNISH" "SUOMEKSI-ENGLANNIN KIELI" AND "DUTCH, FINNISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, SPANISH, SWEDISH & PORTUGUESE" - ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels, Luxembourg VERY EXTENSIVE. "EURODICAUTOM is a electronic dictionary of terminology containing terms, acronyms and abbreviations of all the aspects of the European Union Activities." For more information see EURODICAUTOM

"ENGLISH-FINNISH" "SUOMEKSI-ENGLANNIN KIELI" AND "DUTCH, FINNISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, LATIN, SPANISH, SWEDISH & PORTUGUESE" - Felix Gaehtgens and Jens Kurlanda Old Version of ECHO - EURODICAUTOM.

 

French/Français

"ENGLISH-FRENCH" "FRANÇAIS-ANGLAIS" - M. Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago

"ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN & ITALIAN" - CYBERDICO: ONLINE WORD TRANSLATOR - Linguistic-Webmaster & Databases Builder: A. Bonucci, Department of Linguistics, University Lumière Lyon 2, France

"ENGLISH-FRENCH" "FRANÇAIS-ANGLAIS" AND "DUTCH, FINNISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, SPANISH, SWEDISH & PORTUGUESE" - ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels, Luxembourg VERY EXTENSIVE. "EURODICAUTOM is a electronic dictionary of terminology containing terms, acronyms and abbreviations of all the aspects of the European Union Activities." For more information see EURODICAUTOM

"ENGLISH-FRENCH" "FRANÇAIS-ANGLAIS" AND "DUTCH, FINNISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, LATIN, SPANISH, SWEDISH & PORTUGUESE" - Felix Gaehtgens and Jens Kurlanda Old Version of ECHO - EURODICAUTOM.

 

German/Deutsch

"ENGLISH-GERMAN" "DEUTSCH-ENGLISCH" - Wörterbuch online, Langenscheidt-Redaktion, Germany "At present more than 120,000 words are in this dictionary." For more information see Langenscheidt

"ENGLISH-GERMAN" "DEUTSCH-ENGLISCH" - R. Werner, Dresden, Germany "At present more than 136.000 words are in this dictionary." For more information see Rüdiger Werner' Home Page

Some Examples of Specialized Dictionaries include

The chemical elements -- die chemischen Elemente

"ENGLISH-GERMAN" "DEUTSCH-ENGLISCH": WEBTRANS DICTIONARIES - T. Hiddessen, Technischen Universität Clausthal, Deutschland (Germany) "more then 124,000+ different entries (including several thousand phrases)." For more information see Hiddi's Homepage or the Technischen Universität Clausthal

"ENGLISH-GERMAN" "DEUTSCH-ENGLISCH" (JAVA APPLET) - D. Unger, Germany Foreign Language Master: Contains 3 Java Dictionaries: 5,000 word; 60,000 word, and 165,000 word. For more information see Denis Unger's Home Page

"ENGLISH-GERMAN" "DEUTSCH-ENGLISCH" - F. Richter, Technical University of Chemnitz-Zwickau Currently over 100,000 words.

"ENGLISH-GERMAN" "DEUTSCH-ENGLISCH" - Langenscheidt's New College English Dictionary, Gesellschaft f¸r multilinguale Systeme (GMS), Germany "Langenscheidt's New College English Dictionary has 1,495 pages and contains around 220,000 words and phrases used in modern English and German." For more information see Gesellschaft f¸r multilinguale Systeme (GMS)

"ENGLISH-GERMAN" "DEUTSCH-ENGLISCH" - A. Jung, Germany A mirror site is located Here

"GERMAN TRANSLATOR: FROM ENGLISH, SPANISH, GERMAN, FRENCH OR ITALIAN" - Bigben and Rivendell International Communications For more information see Rivendell's Machine Translation Dictionary

"ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN & ITALIAN" - CYBERDICO: ONLINE WORD TRANSLATOR - Linguistic-Webmaster & Databases Builder: A. Bonucci, Department of Linguistics, University Lumière Lyon 2, France

"ENGLISH-GERMAN" "DEUTSCH-ENGLISCH" AND "DUTCH, FINNISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, SPANISH, SWEDISH & PORTUGUESE" - ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels, Luxembourg VERY EXTENSIVE. "EURODICAUTOM is a electronic dictionary of terminology containing terms, acronyms and abbreviations of all the aspects of the European Union Activities." For more information see EURODICAUTOM

"ENGLISH-GERMAN" "DEUTSCH-ENGLISCH" AND "DUTCH, FINNISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, LATIN, SPANISH, SWEDISH & PORTUGUESE" - Felix Gaehtgens and Jens Kurlanda Old Version of ECHO - EURODICAUTOM.

 

Gaelic

Irish Gaelic/Gaelige

"GRAMADACH LEXICON" - HTML version by John T. McCranie For more information see Gaelic Dictionaries Online or Gaelic Languages Info

 

Manx Gaelic/Gaelg

"FROCKLEYR GAELG" - Baarle - Contributed by Phil Kelly; HTML version by John T. McCraniey For more information see Gaelic Dictionaries Online or Gaelic Languages Info

 

Scottish Gaelic/Gàidhlig

"ENGLISH-SCOTTISH GAELIC" SCOTTISH GAELIC-ENGLISH" - "StÚrdýta Briathrachais Gýidhlig" - Fýilte gu Sabhal MÛr Ostaig, (SMO), Scotland "Scotland's Gaelic-medium college on the island of Skye." For more information see Fýilte gu Sabhal MÛr Ostaig, (SMO)

"ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGE" - MacBain - Keyed in and verified at Sabhal Mór Ostaig, The Gaelic College, Island of Skye, by Caoimhín P. Ó Donnaíle & Ruth Melton; HTML version by John T. McCranie For more information see Gaelic Dictionaries Online or Gaelic Languages Info

"THE SCHOOL GAELIC DICTIONARY" - Keyed in and verified at Sabhal Mór Ostaig, The Gaelic College, Island of Skye, by Caoimhín P. Ó Donnaíle & Ruth Melton; HTML version by John T. McCranie For more information see Gaelic Dictionaries Online or Gaelic Languages Info

 

Greek

"ENGLISH-GREEK" "GREEK-ENGLISH": INFORMATICS TERMINOLOGY DICTIONARY - P. Georgiadis, G. Laskaridis, G. Lepouras, A. Sotiropoulou and C. Vassilakis, Department of ECS, TEI of Piraeus, University of Athens, Greece Can display translation in either Latin Characters or Greek (ELOT 928) and Latin characters.

"ENGLISH-GREEK" - Perseus Project, Turts University For more information see Lexica or Perseus Project

 

Hawaiian/Olelo Hawai'i

"ENGLISH-HAWAIIAN'" "HAWAIIAN-ENGLISH" - Mo'o & Lolo's - The Coconut Boyz Online Dictionary "This on-line dictionary contains close to 5,000 Hawaiian-English and English-Hawaiian words. These are most of the frequently used words and definitions."

"ENGLISH-OLELO HAWAI'" "OLELO HAWAI'I- ENGLISH" - Hale Kuamo'o and the 'Aha Punana Leo' - The Hawaiian Language Center Poao Gya'Olelo (Hawaiian Language Dictionary). "Mamaka Kaiao is the Hawaiian language dictionary published by the Hale Kuamo'o. It contains words not printed in the Elbert/Puku'i Hawaiian language dictionary." The Mamaka Kaiao Hawaiian Language dictionary is also available Here

FIND YOUR HAWAIIAN NAME - Mo'o & Lolo's - The Coconut Boyz Online Dictionary

 

Hebrew & Yiddish

"ENGLISH-HEBREW" "HEBREW-ENGLISH" - Macom Networking Ltd., Isreal For more information see the Welcome to the Macom Networking Ltd. Hebrew Pages

 

Hindi

"ENGLISH-HINDI-JAPANESE" - K. Machida, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan For more information see ILCAA Laboratories; Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa or Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

 

Hmong

"ENGLISH-HMONG"/ "HMONG-ENGLISH" - M. Thompson, Y. Yang, C. Thao, R. MacLeod & the students of Saturn School, St. Paul, Minnesota For more information see Welcome to the Saturn Hmong Page

 

Hungarian/Magyar

"ENGLISH-HUNGARIAN" "MAGYAR-ANGOL" - This dictionary is maintained by Attila Vonyó & László Drótos and is hosted by MTA SZTAKI, Hungary "Currently contains more than 130,000 records." For more information see Computer & Automation Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

"ENGLISH-HUNGARIAN" "MAGYAR-ANGOL" OR If you speak Hungarian use "ENGLISH-HUNGARIAN" "MAGYAR-ANGOL""The dictionary was collected by A. Vonyó. Recently it contains more than 150,000 records. The project is supported by the Hungarian Free Software Foundation".

 

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