Reference works

With these links you can access free dictionaries and reference works for many European languages, as well as other languages of the world. Nearly all of the links offer translations both from the given foreign languages into German and from German into the respective foreign language. Useful links to monolingual dictionaries and reference works for specific specialist areas are available here as well.


http://www.acronymfinder.com
and
http://acronyms.silmaril.ie/#0
Lists of English abbreviations

http://www.allwords.com
Main language English, also has an acoustic function for listening to the English pronunciation, translates terms from English into German, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish, monolingual transcription of many English terms, search function based on technical areas.

http://www.arabdict.de
Online dictionary for German-Arabic, Arabic-German, English-Arabic, Arabic-English and more.

http://www.bau.net/woerterbuch/index-en.php
English-German technical construction dictionary

http://www.canoo.net
Contains dictionaries and grammar for German and a program for checking spelling (changes were carried out in accordance with the last German spelling reform of August 2006), 250,000 entries in the dictionary

http://www.handedict.de/
Chinese-German dictionary published by the German-Chinese Society in Hamburg

https://dict.leo.org/chinese-German/
Chinese-German dictionary

http://www.computer-woerterbuch.de or http://www.it-administrator.de/lexikon
German dictionaries for technical terms from the areas of computers, the Internet and telecommunications

http://www.dicionarios-online.com/
List of links for dictionaries and glossaries focussing on Portuguese  

http://www.dict.cc
English dictionary – the terminology collections for many other European languages are continuously expanded.

http://dict.ibs.ee/
English-Estonian online dictionary

http://dict.sztaki.hu/German-ungarisch
German-Hungarian online dictionary

http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de
English, Spanish and Portuguese dictionary published by the TU Chemnitz

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org
Cambridge English dictionary, very comprehensive, with idiomatic usage

http://al3arabiya.org/sakhr-english-arabic-dictionary/
Arabic dictionary in combination with German, English, French, Turkish

http://www.duden.de/woerterbuch
Extensive German reference work – entered terms are searched for in Duden standard works such as abbreviations, spelling, dictionary of foreign words, universal dictionary, dictionary of synonyms, etc. – contains toolbar for downloading and enables spellchecking of texts.

http://www.esaurus.org/
English-Chinese medical dictionary

http://www.foreignword.com (homepage)
http://www.foreignword.com/German/default.htm (German language page)
At present the program supports the translation of 69 into 73 languages. The translation of terms can be requested directly after selecting the source and the target language. Based on 265 online dictionaries, which can be accessed from a menu. With 'Translate Now' also provides rapid access to 28 translation tools for the machine translation of sentences.

http://www.usa-kulinarisch.de/food-lexikon/
English – German food lexicon

http://www.novado.ch/spip.php?site189&lang=en
Glossary with over 5000 terms from the finance world in German, English, French and Italian

http://www.hist.uzh.ch/de/fachbereiche/oeg/links/woerterbuch.html
List of links to online dictionaries for eastern European languages

http://iate.europa.eu
Interactive terminology for Europe with around 1.4 million entries. The terminology database for the EU's institutions covers all 23 official languages, from Bulgarian to Swedish, as well as Latin.  Searches are possible for terms, abbreviations or "all", and it is also possible to restrict to special technical areas. Translations from a source language in several target languages are also offered.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3298/3298-h/3298-h.htm
German-English dictionary for banking and finance by Winfried Honig

http://www.leo.org
Comprehensive dictionary founded by the Technical University Munich: English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian

http://www.lingostudy.de
Offers language portals for Italian, English, French and Spanish

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
Chinese-English dictionary

http://www.moreorless.net/diz/MoL_A.html
Monolingual Italian dictionary for technology and computer science, also contains translations of many English terms and abbreviations that are required for using programs and navigating the Internet.

http://www.m-w.com
Merriam-Webster English dictionary, very comprehensive, with a thesaurus and a special section for medical terms, also has a conversion table for dimensions and weights:

http://www.spanishcentral.com/browse/a
Additional section of Merriam-Webster: Spanish – English

http://www.mydictionary.de
Turkish dictionary for Turkish

http://www.mydictionary.de/turkish-english.html
Turkish-English dictionary

http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/de/woordenboek/
Dutch dictionary

http://www.onelook.com
The program is based on approx. 700 mainly English-language special dictionaries. If a word is entered, an explanation or paraphrase is sought simultaneously in all dictionaries (e.g. in Money Glossary, Science and Biotechnology, Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing). Linked in the "Find translations" section with a series of other online dictionaries.

http://www.crossdictionary.com/
Online dictionary of science and technology for English, Russian, Italian and French with text references

http://www.pons.eu/
Language portal for English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Turkish and Latin

http://www.reverso.net
Dictionary for French, English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese, Romanian, Japanese, Hebrew, Polish and Turkish

http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wwwoerterbuch/polnisch/polnisch.htm
List of links to Polish dictionaries


http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wwwoerterbuch/russisch/russisch.htm
List of links to Russian dictionaries

http://www.spanish-translator-services.com/dictionaries/
Online technical dictionary English-Spanish, Spanish-English for finance, further links to English-Spanish glossaries, lists of abbreviations, etc.

http://www.translate.ru
Russian dictionary in combination with German, English, Spanish,  Italian, Portuguese and French

http://www.wissen.de/lexika-und-woerterbuecher
Langenscheidt dictionaries English, French, Spanish, Turkish and
Wahrig German Spelling / Bertelsmann Dictionary of the German Language

http://www.yourdictionary.com
This page contains links to nearly all world languages. The focus is on English, but German dictionaries (e.g. German - Hungarian, Indonesian - German) can also be accessed, as can German-English specialist dictionaries, for example for construction, landfill technology. A series of German lexica, among others on medicine and health, insurance, law, are linked directly to this site.


Glossaries and terminology databases

http://www.cueronet.com/vocabulario/index.htm
Spanish-English-Italian glossary for leather

http://bistrosearch.eurac.edu/
EURAC terminology database "bistro", Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism, German and Italian legal terminology

https://iate.europa.eu/home
EU terminology database (IATE=Inter-Active Terminology for Europe) for all EU languages on all social, economic, legal and political fields in the EU

http://webterm.term-portal.de/
Terminology collections from degree theses from Cologne University of Applied Science
on various specialist areas with entries in German, English, French and Spanish

http://www.imf.org/external/np/term/index.asp?index=deu&index_langid=5
IMF (International Monetary Fund) terminology database in German-English-Spanish-French-Portuguese. The database contains words and expressions, as well as institutional titles and functions that are commonly encountered in IMP documents in areas such as money and banking, public financing, balance of payments, and economic growth.

https://www.itu.int/bitexts/termino.php
Wide-ranging and easy to use terminology database of the ITU (International Telecommunication Union), in English, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese

https://www.elegislation.gov.hk/glossary/en
and
https://www.elegislation.gov.hk/glossary/chi
English-Chinese glossary of legal terms

https://www.konferenztechnik.de/lexikon-der-konferenztechnik/
Online lexicon of conference technology – for conference interpreters

http://www.linguateca.pt/COMPARA/Welcome.html
COMPARA: English-Portuguese, Portuguese-English database that makes text corpora on the sought term available in both languages

http://pngis.abarysh.webfactional.com/
Oil and gas glossary in English, takes account of international, national, regional and industrial standards

http://term-portal.de/de/terminologiebestaende.html
German terminology portal with links to terminology databases, up-to-date, extensive, very informative

http://tms.bundestag.de/
The terminology database of the language services of the German Bundestag provides parliamentary and political terminology in English and French. Also contains numerous additional specialist areas, such as economics, law or the environment.
German-English, German-French, English-German, French-German

http://unterm.un.org/
UNTERM – United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database
Terminology database of the United Nations in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic

http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html
Multilingual glossary of medical terminology in English, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese

http://webapp.uibk.ac.at/terminologie/trm_start.html
Terminology database of the Institute for Translation Science at Innsbruck University:
collection of terminological dissertations by students at the institute. At present (June 2010) it comprises 211 dissertations with a total of about 27,000 bilingual or multilingual entries on various subjects from at present 25 disciplines in German and one (or more) of the following languages: English, French, Italian and Spanish.




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