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This dictionary project has grown out of a university language course. It is highly experimental in nature. Over the time, it was also used as a test-bed for the development of the Viennese Lexicographic Editor (VLE) and semi-automatic data acquisition for digital dictionaries.
The focus in compiling the dictionary has been on contemporary language. In the beginning, all lexical items needed in the classes were entered into the dictionary. Later we started to integrate data not available in other dictionaries. Particular attention has been paid to neologisms such as 'street bump', 'virtual reality', 'hard disk', 'charger' (of a mobile) which can not be found in most of the usually older print dictionaries. For the time being, we do not attempt to achieve anything like a complete coverage.
As of 15.10.2018 the dictionary contains 10.269 released records.
Usage examples are adapted from various sources, for the most part coming from the Internet. Of particular importance is a Wikipedia version which we have made available as a TEI corpus. You can access the 'fawiki' corpus here: https://wikipedias.eos.arz.oeaw.ac.at/run.cgi/first_form.
Through the query interface, you can search for words or groups of words in the dictionary. By simply entering a word such as fārsi and pressing the button "Submit!" (alternatively, you can press the ENTER button) you will retrieve results from any index. Results matching your query will be displayed below the input field.
| book | Any entries containing an element `book´. | Click |
| کتاب | You also can use the Arabic script in queries. | Click |
| lem=daftar | It is also possible to indicate the field in which to search. This query returns the lemma `daftar´. | Click |
| en=class | This query returns all entries with an English translation equivalent `class´. | Click |
| pos=conjunction | POS stands for part-of-speech. This query will return all conjunctions. | Click |
| dom=zoology | This query returns all entries with a domain label `zoology´. | Click |
Simple wildcards can also be used.
| book.* | Simple wildcards can be used as well. The query `book.*´ returns all entries containing a string `book´. | Click |
| lem=daftar.* | It is also possible to combine field indicators with wildcards. | Click |
| en=school.* | This query returns all entries containing a translation equivalent `school´. | Click |
| en=.*school$ | The dollar ($) sign anchors the term at the end of a token. The query should then yield results conaining `preschool´ or `high school´ . | Click |
| en=^house.* | The circumflex (^) is supposed to anchor the term at the beginning of a token. The query should then yield results conaining `housekeeping´ or `household´ . | Click |
It is also possible to combine query terms. If you use more than one term each of them has to be put in square brackets with the + (plus) sign in between. Mind that inside of brackets [...] you have to identify the fields.
| [dom=zoo.*]+[lem=^s.*] | Click |
| [pos=conjunction]+[lem=ke.*] | Click |
Mind that all queries are case sensitive. `en=house´ and `en=House´ will yield different results.
If you need special characters such as ā, ʕ or č, click on the respective letters in the character table.