Electronic Dictionary Recommendation

[Michael Denner]

Dear SEELANGers,

I have two recommendations for electronic dictionaries...  The first is one
I've recommended several time: http://mega.km.ru
It's based off the very good electronic encyclopedia <<Kyrill i Mefodij>> &
offers, in addition to an English/Russian and <<tolkovyj>> Russian
dictionary, very useful encyclopedic dictionaries on various subjects
(culinary, automobile, cinematography (which is VERY good and
comprehensive), etc.)). Thus, on the query словарь one gets the following
list of entries:

   "словарь"  найдено в:  Разделы:
  СЛОВАРЬ     Универсальная
  СЛОВАРЬ     Русского языка
  КАРМАННЫЙ СЛОВАРЬ ИНОСТРАННЫХ СЛОВ     Универсальная
  БРОКГАУЗА И ЕФРОНА ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЧЕСКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ     Универсальная
  ГРАНАТ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЧЕСКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ     Универсальная
  ЧАСТОТНЫЙ СЛОВАРЬ     Универсальная
  ТОЛКОВЫЙ СЛОВАРЬ     Универсальная
  ОБРАТНЫЙ СЛОВАРЬ     Универсальная
  Словарь терминов Nivea Visage     Здоровье
  Краткий толковый словарь по бронетанковой технике     Вооружения
  Краткий словарь сокращений и терминов     Вооружения
  Электронный словарь Alphabyte     Компьютеров
  Обратный словарь     Русского языка
  МЕЙЕРА ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЧЕСКИЕ СЛОВАРИ     Универсальная
  ИДЕОГРАФИЧЕСКИЕ СЛОВАРИ     Универсальная
  ВЕБСТЕРА СЛОВАРИ     Универсальная
  УЭБСТЕРА СЛОВАРИ     Универсальная
  Словари и программы перевода     Компьютеров
  Проверка орфографии в Microsoft Word     Компьютеров
  ШВЕДОВА Наталья Юльевна     Универсальная


The interface is very practical and it's fast, though I don't think the
Russian dictionary is truly <<tolkovyj>> inasmuch as stress isn't indicated,
and (as a non-native speaker) 9 times out of 10 I'm looking a word up to
find its stress pattern.

The "mother" of all electronic dictionary sites is probably
http://www.slovari.ru/, which, according to its own material, is a joint
project among the Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language, the Russian
Academy of Sciences, and the publisher <<Azbukovnik>>. It contains the
following:

 Словарь русского языка С. И. Ожегова
 Толковый словарь русского языка С. И. Ожегова и Н. Ю. Шведовой
 Русский орфографический словарь
 Популярный словарь иностранных слов
 Словарь иностранных слов
 Русский семантический словарь

The digital version of the Ozhegov dictionary is, apparently, identical to
the printed one, so it's a truly "tolkovyj" dictionary -- the inflected
forms, conjugations, stress patterns (!), etc.

I find the interface on the site infuriating (you have to pass through
several pages on a slow server to get an answer to your query). That said,
the quality of the result is exceptional because you can choose to search
the text of all the entries. Thus, you can find all the entries that contain
<<slovar'>>: ДВУЯЗЫ'ЧНЫЙ, ЛЕКСИКО'Н, ОДНОТО'МНЫЙ, ТОЛКО'ВЫЙ, ФРАЗЕОЛО'ГИЯ,
ЭНЦИКЛОПЕ'ДИЯ, etc.

Best,
Michael

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

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