Dictionaries and Glossaries: Resources for Translators
Dictionaries and reference works
General dictionaries for the common languages, monolingual reference works for German and English, dictionaries for individual languages and specialist dictionaries for construction, IT, finance and medicine. For specialised translation they do not replace terminology work, but they are a quick first point of reference.
LEO
Dictionaries for eight languages, each paired with German, plus forum and inflection tables.
English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Chinese
PONS online dictionary
Dictionaries for eleven languages with examples, pronunciation and vocabulary trainer.
English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Turkish, Latin
dict.cc
User-extended English-German dictionary, with further language pairs for most European languages.
German, English and others
Reverso
Dictionary with context examples from real texts for 14 languages.
English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese
Beolingus, TU Chemnitz
Dictionary of Chemnitz University of Technology for English, Spanish and Portuguese with pronunciation samples.
German, English, Spanish, Portuguese
LingoStudy
Dictionary and vocabulary trainer for Italian, English, French and Spanish.
German with 4 languages
PROMT.One
Russian online translator with dictionary, transcription and conjugation.
Russian with English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
allwords.com
English dictionary with audio pronunciation and multilingual search.
English with German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish
Duden online
Spelling, grammar, meaning and origin of German words, with synonyms and examples.
German
wissen.de: encyclopaedias and dictionaries
Dictionary of foreign words, thesaurus, etymological dictionary and dictionary of the German language in one place.
German
Cambridge Dictionary
English dictionary with thesaurus, idioms, pronunciation and translations into many languages.
English
Merriam-Webster
American English: dictionary, thesaurus and medical dictionary, plus tables of weights and measures.
English
YourDictionary
English definitions, word origins, example sentences, synonyms and grammar tips from several sources.
English
OneLook
Searches hundreds of English dictionaries at once, including reverse lookup from meaning to word.
English
Acronym Finder
Over four million English abbreviations and acronyms with their meanings, filterable by subject.
English
The Acronym Server
English acronyms collected since 1987, searchable and open to submissions.
English
arabdict
German-Arabic and Arabic-German dictionary with examples and verb forms, also English-Arabic.
Arabic, German, English
Sakhr Arabic Dictionary
English-Arabic and Arabic-English dictionary.
Arabic, English
HanDeDict
Open Chinese-German dictionary with over 149,000 entries, handwriting recognition and stroke-order animations.
Chinese, German
MDBG Chinese Dictionary
Chinese-English dictionary with Pinyin and handwriting recognition.
Chinese, English
myDictionary Turkish
Turkish-German and Turkish-English dictionary, also for smartphones.
Turkish, German, English
NEON, FU Berlin
Dutch-German and German-Dutch dictionary of the Dutch philology department at Freie Universität Berlin.
Dutch, German
SZTAKI Szótár
German-Hungarian and Hungarian-German dictionary of the Hungarian research institute SZTAKI.
Hungarian, German
English-Estonian Dictionary
English-Estonian dictionary of the Institute of Baltic Studies.
Estonian, English
Nglish by Britannica
Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionary and translator, formerly Spanish Central by Merriam-Webster.
Spanish, English
Spanish Translator Services: Dictionaries
English-Spanish and Spanish-English specialist dictionaries, including finance, plus glossaries and abbreviations.
Spanish, English
Dicionários Online
Collection of links to dictionaries and glossaries with a focus on Portuguese.
Portuguese
Construction dictionary bau.net
Specialist dictionary for construction, English-German and German-English.
English, German
Computer-Wörterbuch.de
Terms from computing, the internet and telecommunications explained in plain German.
German
IT-Administrator: Lexikon
Over 6,000 IT and communications terms with definitions and practical examples.
German
Dictionary of Science & Technology
Over 400,000 specialist terms, abbreviations and definitions from science and technology with source references.
English, Italian, Russian, French
Axone Financial Glossary
Over 5,000 financial terms in English, German, French and Italian, free for non-commercial use.
English, German, French, Italian
Mr Honey's Banking Dictionary
German-English dictionary for banking and finance by Winfried Honig, freely available at Project Gutenberg.
German, English
English-Chinese Medical Dictionary
Medical dictionary English-Chinese.
English, Chinese
Food-Lexikon, USA kulinarisch
Culinary and food terms English-German for where the general dictionary stops.
English, German
Glossaries and terminology databases
Terminology databases of the EU, the United Nations and standards and specialist bodies, plus glossaries for individual fields and a parallel corpus. They provide verified terms with source, definition and context, which makes them a better basis for specialised translation than general dictionaries.
IATE
Terminology database of the European Union with around 1.4 million entries in all official languages, with definitions, sources and reliability ratings.
24 EU official languages
UNTERM
Multilingual terminology database of the United Nations for English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic.
6 UN languages
ITU Terminology
Terminology database of the International Telecommunication Union for telecommunications and radio.
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese
Hong Kong e-Legislation: Glossary
English-Chinese glossary of legal terms used in Hong Kong legislation.
English, Chinese
bistro, Eurac Research
German, Italian and Ladin legal terminology from the Institute for Applied Linguistics in Bolzano.
German, Italian, Ladin
Lexikon der Konferenztechnik
Terms, planning aids and checklists for conference and interpreting technology, in German.
German
COMPARA
Portuguese-English parallel corpus: shows the term you are looking for in context in both languages.
Portuguese, English
Innsbruck terminology database
Terminological theses of the Institute of Translation Studies at the University of Innsbruck, bilingual and multilingual.
German with other languages
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