Dictionaries for download
These dictionaries are available for free download. Just download the .zip file to on your PC. On the PC unzip the file and install the DictionaryForMIDs JAD/JAR-file on your cell phone or PDA. For how to install the DictionaryForMIDs on your cell phone or PDA, please check with your cell phone's or PDA's manual.
Beyond these dictionaries, DictionaryForMIDs can be set up with any other dictionary, see section Setting up additional dictionaries for DictionaryForMIDs.
Internet Dictionary Project (IDP) dictionaries
All of these dictionaries here have been taken from the
IDP (Internet Dictionary Project).
Note that for example for English-Portuguese the freedict dictionary
below has many more words, still the IDP English-Portuguese-version
is useful for cell phones that don't support the freedict dictionary
size.
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| English-Spanish | DictionaryForMIDs_2.3.5_EngSpa_IDP.zip | (187 kB) |
| English-Portuguese | DictionaryForMIDs_2.4.0_EngPor_IDP.zip | (66 kB) |
| English-French | DictionaryForMIDs_2.3.6_EngFra_IDP.zip | (101 kB) |
| English-German | DictionaryForMIDs_2.4.2_EngGer_IDP.zip | (264 kB) |
| English-Italian | DictionaryForMIDs_2.3.6_EngIta_IDP.zip | (144 kB) |
| English-Latin | DictionaryForMIDs_2.2.0_EngLat_IDP.zip | (346 kB) |
Freedict dictionaries
The freedict dictionaries are hosted at
http://www.freedict.org/. There are dictionaries for many
languages.
The support of these dictionaries was made possible by use of
JDictd from Ho Ngoc Duc.
Who can help to set up the remaining dictionaries?
| Language | Download | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|
| English -> Portuguese | Portuguese -> English | DictionaryForMIDs_2.3.0_PorEng_freedict.zip | (421 kB) |
| English -> French | French -> English | DictionaryForMIDs_2.3.2_EngFra_freedict.zip | (423 kB) |
| English -> Spanish | Spanish -> English | DictionaryForMIDs_2.4.0_EngSpa_freedict.zip | (286 kB) |
| English -> German | German -> English | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.3_EngGer_freedic.zip | (4.9MB) |
| English -> Turkish | DictionaryForMIDs_2.3.3_EngTur_freedict.zip | (2110 kB) | |
| German -> French | experimental | DictionaryForMIDs_2.2.1_GerFra_freedict.zip | (252 kB) |
| English -> Arabic | DictionaryForMIDs_2.5.0_EngAra_freedict.zip | (1280 kB) | |
| English -> Italian | Italian -> English | who will set up this dictionary? | |
| English -> Russian | Russian -> English | who will set up this dictionary? | |
| English -> Hungarian | Hungarian -> English | who will set up this dictionary? | |
| English -> Croatian | Croatian -> English | who will set up this dictionary? | |
| German -> Dutch | Dutch -> German | who will set up this dictionary? | |
There are more dictionaries available from http://www.freedict.org/.
Dictionaries from various sources
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| English-Tagalog-Spanish | DictionaryForMIDs_3.3_EngTagSpa_CAL.zip | (1649kB) |
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| English-Armenian | DictionaryForMIDs_3.2.0_EngArm_free.zip | (268,2kB) |
WordNet dictionary
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| English-Definitions | DictionaryForMIDs_EngDef_Wordnet.zip | (6,0MB) |
Czech dictionary (set up by Peter Kmet)
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| English-Czech | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.2_EngCze_webz.zip | (4,4MB) |
Slovak dictionary (set up by Peter Kmet)
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| English-Slovak | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.2_EngSvk_kme.zip | (1,9MB) |
Vietnamese dictionaries (set up by Vu Van Quynh; email
quynh2003hp@yahoo.com) The Vietnamese dictionaries require a cell
phone/PDA with a Vietnamese font.
| Language | Download | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|
| French-Vietnamese | Fr->Vie | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.0_FraVie_48k.zip | (2.9 MB) |
| French-Vietnamese | bi-directional | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.0_FraVie-BIDICT.zip | (4.9 MB) |
| Russian-Vietnamese | Rus->Vie | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.0_RusVie_60k.zip | (3.7 MB) |
| Russian-Vietnamese | bi-directional | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.0_RusVie-BIDICT.zip | (5.0 MB) |
| Vietnamese-French | Vie->Fr | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.0_VieFra_39k.zip | (2.1 MB) |
| Vietnamese-Russian | Vie->Rus | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.0_VieRus_36k.zip | (1.4 MB) |
| English-Vietnamese | Eng->Vie | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.0_EngVie_109k.zip | (5.4 MB) |
| English-Vietnamese | bi-directional | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.0_EngVie-BIDICT.zip | (12.1 MB) |
| Vietnamese-English | Vie->Eng | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.0_VieEng_146k.zip | (6.9 MB) |
| Vietnamese-English | Vie->Eng | DictionaryForMIDs_3.0.0_VieEng_76k.zip | (3.8 MB) |
| English-Vietnamese | bi-directional | DictionaryForMIDs_2.7.1_EngVie267kBIDICT.zip | (11.8 MB) |
| English->Vietnamese | eng->viet | DictionaryForMIDs_2.7.1_EngVie124kFull.zip | (6.7 MB) |
| Vietnamese<-English | viet->eng | DictionaryForMIDs_2.7.1_VieEng143k.zip | (5.2 MB) |
| French-Vietnamese | bi-directional | DictionaryForMIDs_2.5.0_FraVN_bi.zip | (2677 kB) |
| German-Vietnamese | bi-directional | DictionaryForMIDs_2.5.0_GerVN_bi.zip | (3756 kB) |
| Russian-Vietnamese | bi-directional | DictionaryForMIDs_2.5.0_Rus_VN.zip | (1553 kB) |
Dutch dictionaries (set up by Marc Pauwels)
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| French-Dutch | DictionaryForMIDs_2.5.0_Fra_Ned_MP.zip | (291 kB) |
| German-Dutch | DictionaryForMIDs_2.5.0_Ger_Ned_MP.zip | (659 kB) |
| Italian-Dutch | DictionaryForMIDs_2.5.0_Ita_Ned_MP.zip | (103 kB) |
| Dutch-English | DictionaryForMIDs_2.5.0_Ned_Eng_MP.zip | (518 kB) |
| Dutch-Spanish | DictionaryForMIDs_2.5.0_Ned_Spa_MP.zip | (243 kB) |
| Portuguese-Dutch | DictionaryForMIDs_2.5.0_Por_Ned_MP.zip | (110 kB) |
Japanese dictionary (set up by Jeff Krengel; email:
jeffkrengel (a) hotmail.com)
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese-English |
DictionaryForMIDs_3.2.0_EngJpn_EDICT.zip
entries: 120,179 This package uses the EDICT file. This file is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University. It is used in conformance with the Group's license. Note: work on DictionaryForMIDs with EDICT continues: there will be improved search features in a future version. |
(8.9 MB) |
| Japanese-English |
DictionaryForMIDs_3.2.0_EngJpn_EDICT-P.zip
entries: 22,617 This is a reduced version of the EDICT dictionary. It only contains the "(P)" entries ("popular" or "priority"). It is only meant for phones which cannot handle the full sized dictionary. |
(1.9 MB) |
Thai dictionaries (set up by Jeff Krengel; email: jeffkrengel
(a) hotmail.com)
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Thai-English |
DictionaryForMIDs_3.2.0_ThaEng_NIU.zip
entries: 8,299 This package uses the Thai dictionary from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, USA (http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/default.htm). |
(1.3 MB) |
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Thai-English English-Thai |
DictionaryForMIDs_3.2.0_ThaEng_LEX.zip
entries: Thai-English 40,853 This product is created by the adaptation of LEXiTRON developed by NECTEC (http://lexitron.nectec.or.th/). | (6.9 MB) |
Hindi (India) dictionary (set up by Jeff Krengel; email:
jeffkrengel (a) hotmail.com)
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| English-Hindi |
DictionaryForMIDs_3.2.0_EngHin_IIIT.zip
entries: 25,652 This dictionary was created by the Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in the city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh state, India. http://ltrc.iiit.net/onlineServices/Dictionaries/Shabdanjali_Dwnld.html | (2.0 MB) |
Khmer (Cambodia) dictionary (set up by Jeff Krengel; email:
jeffkrengel (a) hotmail.com)
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| English-Khmer |
DictionaryForMIDs_3.2.0_EngKhm_SBBIC.zip
entries: 4,406 This dictionary was created by the Society for Better Books in Cambodia (SSBIC). http://www.sbbic.org/ | (416 kB) |
Romanian dictionary (set up by Peter Hamer; email: phamer (a)
mysmart.ie)
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| English-Romanian | DictionaryForMIDs_2.7.0_EngRom_Var.zip | (413 kB) |
Russian dictionary
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| English-Russian (Mueller http://www.geocities.com/mueller_dic) |
DictionaryForMIDs_2.4.0_EngRus_Mueller.zip | (3374 kB) |
Chinese dictionary
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| English-Chinese (CEDICT dictionary from http://www.mdbg.net; dictionary setup by Lars Torkuhl) |
DictionaryForMIDs_3.1.2_ZhEng_cedict2.zip | (5622 kB) |
| Chinese-German (set up by Sebastian Loziczky) |
DictionaryForMIDs_3.1.2_ChiGer_HanDeDict.zip | (7093 kB) |
Turkish dictionary (set up by Kubilay Ozan; email: kozan (a)
anadolu.edu.tr)
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| English-Turkish | DictionaryForMIDs_2.7.0_EngTur.zip | (3075 kB) |
Various dictionaries
| Language | Download | Size |
|---|---|---|
| German car signs - City (set up by Stefan Martens) |
DictionaryForMIDs_2.7.0_German_car_signs.zip | (62 kB) |
| German phone prefix - City / Service (set up by Stefan Martens) |
DictionaryForMIDs_2.7.0_German_phonePrefix.zip | (178 kB) |
| German zip codes - City (set up by Stefan Martens) |
DictionaryForMIDs_2.7.0_German_ZipCodes.zip | (210 kB) |
| SMS shorthand dictionary (set up by James Davidson) |
DictionaryForMIDs_2.7.0_EngSMS_TXT.zip | (95 kB) |
Tagalog-Cebuano-German-English
| Language | Download |
|---|---|
| Tagalog-Cebuano-German-English (Richard Tschumpel http://taichi.dyndns.org/dict/) |
Downloadpage |
Other dictionaries / dictionaries for lookup
In this section you find some dictionaries that are for information lookup, not for translation. Please note that most of these dictionaries are huge, e.g. > 10 MB, and need a cell phone/PDA with sufficient resources. Also, for looking at the results, a big display is helpful.
English-English Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (English expressions explained in English; 1913-version): DictionaryForMIDs_2.4.3_webster.zip (11492 kB)
Elements database (information about chemical elements): DictionaryForMIDs_2.3.1_Elements.zip
World factbook (text only): who will set up this dictionary ?
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward: who will set up this dictionary ?
DictionaryForMIDs on PCs
You can run DictionaryForMIDs also on a PC with a normal windows interface (instead of a cell phone/PDA). See for more information see here.
If you are interested to see how DictionaryForMIDs runs in a cell phone emulator on a PC, look at http://www.kugihan.de/dict/dicts.htm in the section "PC emulator versions".