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MITRA Dictionaries

MITRA Dictionaries

Sanskrit-Tibetan

Auto‑generated Sanskrit ↔ Tibetan dictionaries derived from 600 k parallel sentence pairs (≈ 4 million entries).

These StarDict format dictionaries are created from parallel sentence alignments to assist in research for Sanskrit<>Tibetan. They can be used with GoldenDict and other compatible viewers.

Format: StarDict (works with GoldenDict, StarDict, SDCV)
Size: ~10 GB per direction after unzip
License: CC BY‑SA 4.0
Where to Download: See GitHub repository dharmamitra‑stardict‑dictionaries ↗

Warning: Each dictionary will require more than 10GB of disk space after unzipping! These contain over 4m headword entries based on 600,000 parallel Sanskrit-Tibetan sentence pairs.

Features

Dharmamitra Sanskrit-Tibetan translation example

  • Bilingual translations of terms and phrases automatically extracted from large sets of parallel sentence pairs
  • StarDict format compatible with many dictionary applications
  • Comprehensive coverage based on extensive parallel corpus

Limitations

  • The phrase entries of the dictionaries are automatically generated, they are not manually checked and we don't claim that these are exhaustive resources
  • The boundary detection is not always reliable
  • These are not manually curated dictionaries, so use with caution!
  • The size is large with millions of entries based on more than 1.7m sentence pairs combined.

Usage

  1. Download the desired dictionary files from the GitHub repository
  2. Unzip them to your favorite folder
  3. Install a StarDict-compatible dictionary viewer (like GoldenDict, StarDict, or SDCV)
  4. Add your favorite folder with the dictionary files to your viewer
  5. Start looking up terms!

Compatible Software

These dictionaries work with: - GoldenDict - StarDict - SDCV (StarDict Console Version) - And other StarDict-compatible dictionary programs

Note: An Apple Dictionary compatible version is currently under preparation and will be released soon.

Sanskrit-Chinese

Note: The Sanskrit ↔ Chinese dictionary is currently under preparation and will be coming soon.