Test Words: Category: Health
English: smoke (v), health, injurious,
addicted, through, the, how, chemicals, tobacco, smoke (n).
Hindi: dhumrapaan, swaasthya/
sehat, kshatikaari / apakaari, aadi,
sey, yeh, kaise, rasayanik dravya, tambaku, dhuan.
Analysis of Transliteration Tools and Electronic Dictionaries:
(in alphabetical order)
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Tool and Info |
Description |
Comments |
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Classical Hindi Dictionary
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/platts/ |
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Project
of UChicago: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia. |
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Installing
the Unicode font enables one to view roman characters with diacritics
and South Asian scripts. |
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Finds entry
words/parts of entry words, words/parts of words and multiple words.
|
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Font help
available. |
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Languages:
English <-> Hindi, Urdu. |
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One
needs to click on
Advanced Search for English -> Hindi/Urdu translation. If there are
less number of results, it is advisable to click on "get all results"
English -> Hindi: 67%
Hindi -> English: 90%
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English-Urdu Dictionary
http://host.bip.net/tracker/dict/index.html |
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Although
this website aims at giving Urdu words, it is useful for Hindi as
well. |
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It has useful
features such as pronunciation key, consonant transcription remarks,
Urdu numerals etc. |
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Languages:
English -> Hindi. |
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Caution:
Some words do differ from regular Hindi words.
English - > Urdu: 90% |
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Foreignword.com
http://www.foreignword.com/ |
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The site
offers word and text translation for many other languages, but only
word translation for Hindi (no text). |
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No help
available. |
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Languages:
Hindi -> English. |
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This website is
supposed to give word translation, but had internal server error, whenever
I tried. |
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Hindibhasha.com
http://www.avashy.com/hindibhasha/win2.html |
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A resource
site for learners of Hindi. |
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Options:
English ->Hindi dictionary,
vocabulary trainer, vocabulary tests, sing-a-long, Urdu script and
Urdu vocabulary (explained with pronunciation and meaning). |
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In the activity
center there are many useful Hindi links, stories (with English translation),
study materials, video clips etc. |
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This dictionary has a very limited vocabulary.
English -> Hindi: 40% |
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Hindi
Electronic Dictionary
http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~kmach/hnd_la-e.htm |
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Most frequently
quoted website. |
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One has
to follow transcription rules. |
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Many words
are explained through the audio file. It also shows the word written
in Devnagari. |
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Because
of transcription rules, one has to try a word several times with different
possibilities, which is time consuming.
Hindi -> English: 67% |
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Hindifast.com
http://www.hindifast.com/eng-hin-2col.pdf
Also found under
http://larrc.sas.upenn.edu/enghindi.pdf
&
http://sanskrit.gde.to/hindi/dict/eng-hin-2col.pdf
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Online Dictionary
in PDF. |
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This
dictionary is found under several different links.
|
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Takes less
than a minute to download (204 pages). |
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Most importantly,
it requires reading knowledge of Hindi writing system, as it is in
Devnagari script. |
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If one can read Hindi Devnagari script, this
dictionary will certainly be helpful.
English -> Hindi: 97% |
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Logos Multilingual Portal
http://www.logos.net/pls/dictionary... |
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The dictionary
offers many other languages including Hindi. |
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It currently
has 7.580.560 entries (total for all languages). |
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Some words
are explained through graphics. |
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Languages:
English <-> Hindi (& many languages) |
|
Currently the vocabulary
for Hindi seems really restricted (I wonder how many entries!), because
it failed to give translation for many banal words. For some words, English
-> Hindi trans. worked, but same words did not give any results from
Hindi -> English.
Not recommended for Hindi -> English.
English ->Hindi: 40%
Hindi ->English: 0% |
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Transliterated Text File
http://sanskrit.gde.to/hindi/dict/eng-hin-itrans.html |
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This is
a dictionary in simple format (one can scroll down and search for
an English word in alphabetical order). |
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It uses
ITRANS transliteration system for Hindi meanings. |
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If downloaded
in PDF, then 330 pages. |
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Languages:
English - > Hindi |
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This is a good dictionary,
although it does not have a search option.
English -> Hindi: 100% |
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Urdu-English Dictionary
http://www.geocities.com/urdudict/index.htm |
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One has
to really click through three pages to get to the required word, look
up the word in book format, no search. |
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Languages:
Urdu -> English. |
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Because of limited
vocabulary & some totally different words than Hindi, this dictionary
is not recommended.
Urdu -> English: 40% |
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UrduWord.com
http://www.urduword.com/index.shtml |
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One
more Urdu website, but really useful for Hindi. |
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It
has many different features such as quick lookup, browser (one can
browse through the English words), etc. |
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Languages:
English -> Urdu. |
|
- point: does not provide
all possible meanings to choose from.
English -> Hindi: 55% |
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Word
AnyWhere
http://www.wordanywhere.com/ |
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Has
a list very common English expressions translated into Hindi on the
index page. |
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It uses
ITRANS transliteration system for Hindi meanings. |
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One has
to follow the transliteration table using "Help" link to
find the meaning of a word. |
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Languages:
English <-> Hindi, <- Telugu. |
|
This site works
well with English -> Hindi translation.
Not recommended for Hindi -> English.
+ point: It gives
a list of Hindi words, which are closer to the required one, so that one
can choose from it; so knowledge of Devnagari writing system is
necessary.
English -> Hindi: 100%
Hindi -> English: 60% |