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Unit 9: Dictionaries

Bilingual Dictionaries Notes

Bilingual dictionaries, giving meaning in one or two other languages.

Example: Harrap’s a new Standard French and English Dictionary/edited by J.E. Mansion;
completely revised and enlarged edition by R.P.L. Ledesert and Margaret Ledesert. London:
Harrap; New York: Scribner, 1972-1980.
Part 1 French into English Two Vols.
Part 2 English into French Two Vols.
Harrap’s Concise Student French and English Dictionary/by J. E. Mansion. New ed./by P.H.
Collin and others, 1978.
Oxford University Press and Collins are also well-known for their bilingual dictionaries in
important European languages in two sizes – unabridged and concise or pocket.

A Dictionary of English and Sanskrit/by Sir Monier Monier – Williams. Lucknow: Akhil Bharatiya
Sanskrit Parishad, 1956.
The first edition was published in 1851. It was reprinted lithographically in India from the sheets
of the first edition.
An English-Hindi Dictionary/by Father Kamil Bulke. 3rd ed. New Delhi: S. Chand, 1981.
Practical Hindi-English Dictionary/by Mahendra Chaturvedi and Bholanath Tiwari. Delhi:
National, 1970.
India being a multi-lingual country, there are numerous bilingual and trilingual dictionaries
offering Hindi or English as first language and their equivalents in any other Indian language
and vice versa. These dictionaries are very useful to language learners and translators.
The Central Hindi Directorate, Department of Culture, Government of India has published
more than twenty bilingual dictionaries, about half of them are Hindi-based and the other half
are regional languages based.
The Directorate has also brought out Hindi based foreign and Indian language dictionaries and
Indian and foreign language-based Hindi dictionaries.
Hindi-Chini Kosh, 1988
Hindi-Fransisi Kosh, 1988
German-Hindi Kosh. 2 parts 1990

In addition there are tri-lingual dictionaries brought out by The Central Hindi Directorate
Hindi-Gujarati-English, 1984
Hindi-Marathi-English, 1988

Multilingual Dictionaries

Multilingual dictionaries giving equivalent words in three or more languages.
Such dictionaries are also known as polyglot dictionaries. They give equivalent words in three
or more languages. The arrangement of entries in the polyglot dictionaries has not been
standardized. They are arranged alphabetically by the main language with the equivalent words
in the other language covered in a tabular form. Separate alphabetical indexes for each language
represented are given as appendices at the end.

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