Dictionaries on-line

You must install the Kalamati font (.ttf) for some of these dictionaries. Download and save kalamati font now (then install in "fonts" folder). For a full range of Nepali fonts go to the font downloads page.

Links to Dictionaries:

• Cornell's Nepali–English & English–Nepali Glossary - Online bilingual Nepali-English dictionary, searchable by queries on word names and meanings. To view the page on a Windows you may need to download and install the Kalimati font (available on the site). To view the page on an Apple Mac, OS X.2 or later and the Safari browser are needed. The user may also view the lexicon organized by the lesson in which a word occurs in Banu and Shambhu Oja's Nepali: A Beginner's Primer, Conversation and Grammar.
  
  
• Mark Turin's Thangmi-Nepali-English Dictionary - Searchable online version of the trilingual Thangmi-Nepali-English print dictionary by Mark Turin.
  
  
• Ralph Lilley Turner's A comparative and etymological dictionary of the Nepali language - Online searchable edition of Ralph Lilley Turner's A comparative and etymological dictionary of the Nepali language, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931. Includes Devanagari and roman alphabets; in order to display the full range of diacritics a Unicode font must be installed.
  
  
• Ruth Laila Schmidt's A Practical dictionary of modern Nepali - Online searchable edition of Ruth Laila Schmidt's A Practical dictionary of modern Nepali, Ratna Sagar, 1993/1994. Includes Devanagari and roman alphabets; in order to display the full range of diacritics a Unicode font must be installed.
  
  
• Nepalhomepage English to Nepali Dictionary - Online English-Nepali dictionary.
  
  
• Kraemer's Nepali-English Dictionary - Downloadable PDF version of the Nepali-English dictionary compiled by Karl-Heinz Kraemer, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. The Kantipur font is required to read the words in Devanagari script; the words are ordered according to their Latin transscription.
  
  
• Kraemer's Nepali-German Dictionary - Downloadable PDF version of the Nepali-German dictionary compiled by Karl-Heinz Kraemer, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. The Kantipur font is required to read the words in Devanagari script; the words are ordered according to their Latin transcription.