Introducing to Pāli-English English-Pāli and Buddhism dictionaries for Stardict
English, Linux, Research, Tech, Theravada Study August 21st, 2010
The aims of this post is to introduce you to Stardict, a free & opensource international dictionary, provide some useful and free dictionaries including Pāli-English English-Pāli. Whenever you visit a web page in Pāli, just select or double click on a Pāli word, Stardict will auto look up the meanings of that word in English, you do not need to type the Pāli word.
If you want to type Pāli word, please see part 5. And if you just want to read the Tipitaka in Pali, you can use Pāli Text Reader, Pāli Text Reader itself contains Pāli-English dictionary.
This post has 5 parts as listed bellow:
1-What is Stardict
2-Downnload& Install Stardict
3-Add dictionaries to Stardict
4-Stardict pronounces English words
5-More Pāli resources
1-What is Stardict?
StarDict is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary Software. It has powerful features such as “Glob-style pattern matching”, “Scan selection word,” “Fuzzy query,” etc. Stardict Version3.0 has developed a lot of new functions, such as Full-text translation, Net Dict.
- Mouse Inquiry: When “scan” option is selected, you can capture the words via mouse to translate.
- More Powerful!: Thousands of free dictionaries can be found on the internet. Choose your own favorites.
- Net Dict : Dictionary installation on your own computer is not necessary any more. Click the main menu icon on the top right of the corner, choose “Preferences” option. Here you can set Net dict. Register or log on your account, then you can use the Net Dict with your own dictionaries.
- Full-text translation: Click text translate icon on the left. With google, yahoo, Altavista, Excite Janpan translation engines you can tranlate from one language to another with satisfactory results.
- My other posts about Stardict can be found Here
2-Downnload& Install Stardict
According to which OS you are using, you can downloa d 1 of these versions and install Stardict. For the Window OS and Linux system, just double click on the downloaded file to start to install. (If you can’t downloa d the files here, please try this link.)
For Linux (Debian, Ubuntu) stardict_3.0.1-1_i386.deb 1.6 MB (Or you can install via terminal: sudo apt-get install stardict)
For Window OS: stardict-3.0.2.exe 10.6 MB
For Mac OS http://sourceforge.net/projects/stardict/files/stardict/3.0.1/StarDict-3.0.1-MacOSX.zip/download
3-Add dictionaries to Stardict
Here are some of Stardict Dictionaries that I am using:
1) English-Pali của ngài A.P. Buddhadatta
2) Pali-English của ngài A.P. Buddhadatta
3) Pali-Việt của ngài Bửu Chơn
4) Thuật ngữ Luật tạng Pali-Việt của Sư Giác Nguyên
5) Abhidhamma Pali-Việt của ngài Tịnh Sự
6) Việt-Pali của Sadi Định Phúc
7) Pali-English English-Pali Dictionary
Pali-English Dictionary-Pali Text Society
9) CKJ Buddhism Dictionary
1- Startdict-Buddhism-3dics.zip contents 3 dictionaries: CKJ Buddhism Dictionary, Pali-English English-Pali Dictionary, Buddhist Dictionary by Ven. Nyanatiloka Mahathera:
http://cuongdang.info/stardict/pali/3Buddhism-and-8Pali-dicts.zip
2- Here are some useful dictionaries for Vietnamese (En-Vn, Vn-En, Fr-Vn, Vn-Fr, Vn-Vn, Rus-Vn) 6 dictionaries
http://cuongdang.info/stardict/6dics-En-Vn-and-others-for-vietnamese.zip
YOU CAN ALSO DOWNLOAD THEM FROM HERE:
http://cid-2aaf1aaefb464249.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/stardict
For other language dictionaries you can download them from http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries.php
or
http://reciteword.cosoft.org.cn/stardict-iso/stardict-dic/
If you are using Ubuntu Linux and new to Ubuntu, you can use this method:
Firstly, right click on the downloaded compressed file and choose Extract Here, you will get a new folder (*).
Now open the Terminal (Go to the menu Applications/Accessories/Terminal) type:
sudo nautilus
provide your root password, then the nautilus (like window explorer on Window^^) will be opened. Now just browse to the uncompress folder (*) and copy them to usr/share/stardict/dic.
Or you can use this method:
To install these tarball dictionaries, do this:
tar -xjvf a.tar.bz2
sudo mv a /usr/share/stardict/dic
B – Install Dictionaries in Window OS:
Use free uncompress program 7 Zip or other unzip softwares like Winrar…. to extract the .tar.bz2 file, which you get a directory, then move this directory to the dic\, such as C:\Program files\stardict\dic\
C- Install Dictionaries in Mac OS X:
tar -xjvf a.tar.bz2 -C /opt/gtk/usr/share/stardict/dic
4-Stardict pronounces English words
3- Pāli Keyboard and typing (now Window version only): http://www.tipitaka.org/keyboard
A Pali-English text reader Firefox Extension that allows Pali students to read the Pali Canon. Automatically recognizes pali words and gives definitions from the CPED and PED, as well as DPPN if available. Includes text search and dictionary lookup.
Lucid Puppy 5.1 on USB Flash Drive weighing in at only 128MB.
Linux August 17th, 2010
About
Lucid Puppy 5.1 consists of the popular Puppy Linux architecture that Puppy founder Barry Kauler has been refining through 4 editions of Puppy Linux. But this time Puppy is built with binary packages from the latest Ubuntu release Lucid Lynx, hence Lucid Puppy 5.1. The Puppy architecture is well known to be lean and fast, and friendly and fun, and Lucid Puppy is no exception.
Lucid Puppy Live USB Flash Drive Creation tutorial
- Download the lupu-501.iso
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.1/lupu-510.iso
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.1/
- Download and launch our Universal USB Installer, select Lucid Puppy 5.0.1 and follow the onscreen instructions
- Once the script has finished, restart your PC and set your BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device, save your changes and reboot
Further readings and adapted sources:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.1/release-Lucid-510.htm
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/put-lucid-puppy-on-usb-flash-drive-from-windows/
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How to forward email from Window live ID to other emails
Linux, Post, Tech August 12th, 2010
Tonight I have just figured out something cool aboout Window Live email. Oh, you can easily forward your Window live emails to other email accounts (gmail or yahoo mail…) by starting from the bellow link. It seems that Microsoft hid this option carefully
^^ ):
http://mail.live.com/default.aspx?rru=options
You will see the first option like this:
Manage your account
View and edit your personal information
Send and receive mail from other e-mail accounts
Forward mail to another e-mail account
If you have more than 1 Window Live ID account, you can link them together from here too.
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download Stardict dictionaries
English, Linux August 10th, 2010
StarDict Dictionaries
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Protected: How to unlock Viettell USB 3G Modem
Linux, Tech June 30th, 2010
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View Myanmar characters – Myanmar Burmese fonts on Ubuntu
Linux April 9th, 2010

Padauk is a fully capable Unicode 5.1 font supporting all the Myanmar characters in the standard. Thus it provides support for minority languages as well, in both local and Burmese rendering style.
On Ubuntu: you can install it simply via Ubuntu Software center (key word “Padauk”).
On Window: Download and install Padauk Font Windows Installer
Download “Padauk-2.6.1.exe”, Windows application, 318KB.
More: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Padauk
ubuntu – can not forward on Youtube – temp solution
Linux April 7th, 2010
I accidentally discovery this one, it works!
- Press the Space key (long one) to pause the watching Video.
- Then use, the left or right key to backward or forward the clip!
That’s it!
Updated April 12, 2010
Solved by installing a native 64 bit version of the flash player
How to install: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1081964
Enjoy
Introduction to Full Circle Magazine
Linux March 29th, 2010
Full Circle is a free, independent, magazine dedicated to the Ubuntu family of Linux operating systems. Each month, it contains helpful how-to articles and reader submitted stories.
You can download all its issues from here.
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