For the first time ever I had to manually download dictionary files (to my e-reader). So I headed online expecting to find a clear king-of-the-hill free & open English-English dictionary, but it turned out that this was easier said than done.
With my brief search I found the StarDict dictionaries, available here.
So, this is thread about open dictionaries!
- Share you’re favourite dictionaries
- Is StarDict the go-to?
- General thoughts on the matter
I use Quickdic from fdroid, works perfectly well for the languages I need.
This actually looks really nice. So it’s able to generate standard dictionaries from Wiktionary, which is probably the best source available. I wonder if the magic is within the app or is it a feature of Wiktionary?
The dictionaries that are offered within the app are actually hosted here: https://github.com/rdoeffinger/Dictionary/releases/v0.3-dictionaries
So, it requires pre-processing of the Wiktionary-data. The steps for that are described here: https://github.com/rdoeffinger/Dictionary#generating-dictionaries
Finding open dictionaries is so difficult, you’d expect simple offline computer readable text data to be easily accessible but it’s just so frustratingly not the case… I’ve been looking for a Malay or Indonesian one forever and I just can’t find any :( I hope others can give more examples like StarDict
