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Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Quotations 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Derived terms

English

Etymology

From medieval Latin dictionarium, from dictio, speaking, action or process form from perfect passive participle dictus, from verb dicere, speak, plus suffix -arium, indicating room or place.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdɪkʃən(ə)rɪ/
• (UK) SAMPA: /"dIkS@n(@)rI/
• (US) AHD: dĭk'shə-nĕr"ē
• (US) IPA: /ˈdɪkʃənˌerɪ/
• (US) SAMPA: /"dIkS@n%erI/

Noun

dictionary, plural dictionaries

1. A publication, usually in the form of a book, which gives an ordered list (normally alphabetically) of words, normally explaining their meaning and sometimes containing information on etymology, usage, translations and other items related to the word. Some dictionaries list the words of more than one language and/or give translations in more than one language.

Quotations

• 1570 - Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster (1570).

  So, as the Grammer booke be euer in the Scholers hand, and also vsed of him, as a Dictionarie, for euerie present vse.

Translations

• Albanian: fjalor
• Arabic: قاموس (qāmūs), معجم (mu'djam)
• Armenian: (pararan)
• Azeri: lüghɘt
• Basque: hiztegi
• Binisayâ: pagpurulungan
• Bosnian: rječnik
• Breton: geriadur
• Bulgarian: речник (rečnik) m
• Burmese: အဘိဓာန္ (abhidhān)
• Catalan: diccionari m
• Chinese: 字典 (zì diǎn), 词典 (cí diǎn)
• Czech: slovník m
• Danish: ordbog
• Dutch: woordenboek n
• Ekspreso: diksionario
• Esperanto: vortaro
• Estonian: sõnaraamat
• Faeroese: orðabók
• Farsi: کتب لغت
• Finnish: sanakirja
• French: dictionnaire m
• Frisian: wurdboek
• Fulani: saggitorde
• Galician: diccionario m
• German: Wörterbuch n
• Modern Greek: λεξικό (lexikó) n
• Hausa: kamus
• Hawaiian: puke wehewehe ‘ōlelo
• Hebrew: מילון (milon)
• Hindi: शब्दकोश (shabdakosh), कोश (kosh)
• Hungarian: szótár
• Icelandic: orðabók
• Igbo: nkowaokwu
• Indonesian: kamus
• Interlingua: dictionario
• Irish: foclóir m
• Italian: dizionario m
• Japanese: 辞書,字書 (じしょ, jisho); 辞典,字典 (じてん, jiten)
• Kannada: ನಿಘಂಟು (nighangṭu), ಅರ್ಥಕೋಶ (arthakōsh)
• Kazakh: сөздик (sözdik)
• Khmer: វចនានុកម (vajnanukrom)
• Kirghiz: сөздүк (sözdük)
• Klingon: mu'ghom
• Korean: 사전 (sajeon)
• Kurdish: ferheng, khebernivis, loghet
• Latin: dictionarium n
• Latvian: vārdnīca f
• Lithuanian: žodynas m
• Luxembourgish: Wierderbuch n, Dixionär m
• Maltese: dizzjunarju (dittsyunaryu)
• Manchu: (buleku bithe)
• Norwegian: ordbok
• Polish: słownik m
• Portuguese: dicionário m
• Romanian: dicţionar n
• Russian: словарь (slovar') m
• Sanskrit: निघण्टु (nighaṇṭu)
• Slovak: slovník m
• Slovene: slovar m
• Somali: qaamuus, abwan-ka
• Spanish: diccionario m
• kiSwahili: kamusi 5
• Swedish: ordbok
• Tamil: (akharaadhi)
• Tatar: süzlek
• Thai: พจนานุกรม (photnanukrom)
• Tibetan: ཚིག་མཛོད་ (tshig mdzod)
• Turkish: sözlük
• Uyghur: (lughät)
• Urdu: لغت (lughat)
• Uzbek: луғат (lughat)
• Vietnamese: tự điển
• Volapük: vödabuk, vödasbuk
• Welsh: geiriadur
• Wu (Suzhou dialect): zïtip
• Xhosa: idikshinari 5
• isiZulu: isichazimazwi 4

Derived terms

• fictionary
• pictionary
• translationary
• Wiktionary