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Re: Dictionary arabic/french/english/german



checkout http://www.dict.cc/ for a community based english<->german
dictionary.  Perhaps something similar can be setup for arabic.

There is a perl script to generate Hebrew words which should be simple to
convert to arabic.

> --- Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle at freenet dot de> wrote:
>> My partner will begin some translations in the next weeks and need a
>> dictionary arabic=>french/french=>arabic.
>
> I'm sure there are english->french open sourced dictionaries on the 'net
> out there.  If you find one you can use our Wordlist [1] (english->arabic
> dictionary) and cross-reference the terms to come-up with a french->arabic
> equivalent.
>
> In other words,
>
>   english->french + english->arabic (string compare) -> french->arabic
>
> The arabic->* route is ALOT more difficult and we've been talking about
> starting an arabic->english project on the 'doc' list for ages now.  We
> need an exhaustive list of Arabic words and there was talk in the past
> about using 'duali' to generate that list (not 100% sure this is doable
> and the right path to go in, thoughts ?).  In short, you'd be best served
> to bring the topic up on 'doc' to see who can join your effort to get
> an Arabic wordlist created.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> [1] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Wordlist
>
> Salam.
>
>  - Nadim
>
>
>
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