Dictionaries on line

[Michael Denner]

Dear SEELANGers:

In response to Ms. Spivak's request for recommendations for on-line
dictionaries, I'm reposting below an earlier answer which comes from an
online guide I wrote for undergraduate students. (I apologize to my British
colleagues for the "lamentable" comment, though I added it for my students'
sake: I remember as an undergrad looking up "na svoix dvoix" in Mueller and
finding "on Grey's mare" as the translation... It took searching in several
English (American) dictionaries, in turn, to discover what that meant.)

Several addenda:
1. I've been translating technical documents lately, and have found that the
Cyrill and Methodius site listed below has an excellent selection of
computer-related terms, though it's significantly better from Russian to
English than vice-versa.
2. Another very useful web reference source is Paul Goldschmidt's Dictionary
of Period Russian Names http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/index.html. It's
basically a long list of Russian imena and familii that gives the
etymological meaning and sometimes the initial history of a given family --
very useful sometimes.

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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.

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
Russian Studies Department
Campus Unit 8361
Stetson University
DeLand, FL 32720
904.822.7265

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