On-line dictionaries & encyclopedias

[Michael Denner]

Dear SEELANGERs:

There have been a couple of questions recently about Russian online
dictionaries. I put the following list & recommendations together for my
students. There's a mix of Russian dictionaries, Russian-English, and
English-Russian. Mr. Stratienko asked whether they were accurate --
considering the generally lower standards for online publication, they've
all struck me as fairly reliable.

The Cyrill and Methodius site also has a really very good news service that
offers some of the more interesting commentary around on Russian and world
events. Check out also their reviews of museum exhibits in Russia.

Dictionaries and References:

Ozhegov's Dictionary of the Russian Language (???????? ??????? ????????
?????): http://www.agama.ru/oz_demo.htm The standard Russian Russian
Dictionary. 40,000 entries, with examples of correct use and some sayings.

Mueller's English-Russian: http://www.falcon.ru/cgi-bin/wwwdic Not a bad
dictionary, exhaustive, but lamentably British.

Andrei Sabelfeld's English-Russian Dictionary:
http://www.cs.chalmers.se/%7Eandrei/dictionary/index.cgi?English=file&Encodi
ng=1251 About 77,000 entries. I've found it to be quite useful and accurate.

The remarkable Babylon: http://babylon.nd.ru/ Search any or all of the
following books: The Dictionary of World Wisdom, Area Codes, The Dictionary
of Orthography, The Dictionary of Foreign Words, Brokhaus and Efron's
Dictionary. The latter is really an encyclopedic dictionary, and probably
the best reference book ever published in Russian. It is, alas, pre-Soviet
(1905), and, if memory serves, not really Russian: It was based on a German
encyclopedia. Babylon is an EXCELLENT, well constructed site, with a very
fast server.

Another excellent reference site is Cyrill and Methodius (?????? ? ???????):
http://mega.km.ru/ Particularly useful is the pop-up keyboard that allows
you to type (albeit slowly) in Cyrillic regardless of whether you have the
proper drivers installed. In addition to a fairly good encyclopedia, the
site has a well-designed English-Russian/Russian-English dictionary.



Michael A. Denner
Instructor, Russian Studies Department
Campus Unit 8361
Stetson University
DeLand, FL 32720
904.822.7265


-----Original Message-----
From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Alexander Stratienko
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 12:15 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: On-line dictionaries


>May I have your recommendations on on-line dictionaries? Specifically,
>is/are there particular one/s that we should consider that must be
>purchased (I know some material is available for free, but our language
>lab has just indicated a willingness to *buy* materials).
>Please reply off-list unless you wish to share your thoughts, and please
>give me some specific sense of why you prefer X or Y.

Using this chance I'd like to ask once again. If anyone knows
any online dictionaries of Polish (similar to the Oxford or
American Heritage dictionaries of English) or even (good and
reliable - without mistakes) dictionaries of Russian?

Alexander Stratienko, Ukraine
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