Pali Dictionaries

The Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary – From the Pali Text Society, London, The Pali Text Society’s Pali-English dictionary, Chipstead, 1921-1925. The “Additions and Corrections” included with The Pali Text Society’s Pali-English dictionary have been applied to the data when this text was converted into a database. The Pali Text Society’s Pali-English dictionary has many accented characters. In order to display these uncommon roman characters with diacritics a Unicode font must be installed.A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera’s Concise Pali-English Dictionary – Online HTML dictionary of Pali-English; uses the VU-Times Unicode font.A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera’s Concise Pali-Vietnamese Dictionary – Online HTML dictionary of Pali-Vietnamese; uses the VU-Times Unicode font.Metta Net English-Pali Dictionary – Online HTML dictionary of English Pali, based on the Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary by Venerable A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera; designed for beginners to help one get started on learning Pali and then move on to more comprehensive dictionaries.An Early (Pali) Buddhist Dictionary – Index page includes texts in PDF, such as An Early (Pali) Buddhist Dictionary, an authentic dictionary of Buddhist doctrinal terms, used in the Pali Canon and its Commentaries; it provides the reader not with a mere enumeration of Pali terms and their English equivalents, but offers precise and authentic definitions and explanations of canonical and post-canonical terms and doctrines, based on the Suttas, Abhidhamma and the Commentaries; and Narada Thera’sAn Elementary Pali Course, Charles Duroiselle’s A Practical Grammar Book of the Pali Language, and numerous other texts.Dict.info Pali Dictionaries – A free bilingual dictionary for Pali-English. Browsable online, with word searches, and downloadable data files.On-Line Pali Course – With lessons transcribed from Ven. Narada’s grammar, and tutorial guides were written by Prof. Dhammavihari, Sri Lanka.Andy Shaw’s Pali Page – Contains Paliwords 4.0, a free Windows electronic dictionary for Pali-English, English-Pali reference, based on A Concise Pali-English Dictionaryby Ven. Buddhadattam with 20,000 Pali-English and 28,000 English-Pali entries; the Palitrans word processor, that allows one to type using the transliteration style and instantly see the correct Pali characters; and other utilities and links.Windows Pali-English Dictionary – Free Windows software downloads of a Pali English Dictionary, based on Ven Buddhadatta’s Pali-English Dictionary but further developed to include a number of English-Pali reverse translations and roots of the individual words; the site also includes links to other Pali utilities.