On-line dictionaries & encyclopedias

[Stuart Goldberg]

Dear all,

vidahl.agava.ru has Dal''s dictionary (the third edition, I believe) online
(reviewed in Ruthenia a while back).  It is "updated" to modern orthography, but
still a tremendous resource if you don't happen to have the hard copy at hand.

Stuart Goldberg


Michael Denner wrote:

> 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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