Hindi Dictionaries and Thesaurus
Arvind Lexicon
You can access the free online edition of Arvind Lexicon's English-Hindi-English Dictionary and Thesaurus by clicking here.
Digital Dictionaries of S.Asia at Univ. of Chicago
Hindi e-dictionaries with online search facilities are made available by the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia project and the Digital South Asia Library.
Bahri, Hardev.
Learners' Hindi-English dictionary = Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi sabdakosa.
Delhi: Rajapala, 1989.
Caturvedi, Mahendra.
A practical Hindi-English dictionary.
Delhi: National Pub.House, 1970.
Dasa, Syamasundara.
Hindi sabdasagara.
Navina samskarana. 2nd ed. Kasi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha, 1965-1975.
Dictionaries from LTRC
These dictionaries have been encoded in ISCII by Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) as part of the Anusaaraka project. The files have been made freely available under the GNU general public license..
LTRC has also made available dictionaries for different Indian languages via http://ltrc.iiit.ac.in/showfile.php?filename=onlineServices/.
Shabdanjali - ISCII
English-Hindi E-Dictionary - ISCII Download links and online seach tool
English to Hindi Dictionary
ver 2.0 - ISCII Download links
ver 2.0 - utf8 Download links
Hosted at sanskritdocuments.org
We converted the ISCII version of the English-Hindi dictionaries to ITRANS and devanagari formats for ease of use. Those files are linked below. For details on these dictionaries (copyright, availability, updates, contacts, permission to use etc), please see the Hindi Dictionary Readme file.
English to Hindi Dictionary
ITRANS encoding (866 kb)
Unicode font - HTML file 1.7 MB
PDF File (330 pages) 1.5 MB
2 Column PDF File (204 pages) 1.5 MB
Gujarati Script Version of English to Hindi Dictionary
ItxGuj Font - HTML file 2.6 MB
PDF File (316 pages) 1.2 MB
Some other Hindi dictionary links
Links to Hindi dictionaries on wikipedia
Links to scanned dictionaries on archive.org
Prabhat Brihat Hindi Shabdakosh (vol-1)
Prabhat Brihat Hindi Shabdakosh (vol-2)
Hindi Electronic Dictionary (CGI)
University of Pennsylvania's Web based Hindi materials
Ernst Tremel's Hindi-German and German-Hindi Glossary for Teach Yourself Hindi.
Encylopedias
A "Hindi Vishva Kosh," a Hindi pictorial encyclopaedia was available at http://www.cdacnoida.in/vishwa/vishwa/homepage.asp. It is sponsored by Government of India. Additional links are Unicode version through unicode conversion gateway. A copy of the vishwakosha is also available for Offline use on google docs.
All the links below are found on विक्षनरी:परिभाषा कोश Wiktionary and विक्षनरी:हिन्दी शब्दावली English Hindi Glossaries.
- रसायन विज्ञान शब्दावली (Chemistry Glossary with Definitions)
- भौतिकी परिभाषा-कोश-१ (Definitional Dictionary of Physics 1)
- भौतिकी परिभाषा-कोश-२ (Definitional Dictionary of Physics 2)
- सिविल इंजीनियरिंग परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Civil Engineering)
- यांत्रिक इंजीनियरिंग परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering)
- विद्युत इंजीनियरी परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Electrical Engineering)
- धातुकर्म परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Metallurgy)
- वनस्पति विज्ञान परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Botany)
- जन्तुविज्ञान परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Biology)
- पुरावनस्पतिविज्ञान परिभाषा कोश (Palaeobotany Definitional Dictionary)
- सूक्ष्मजैविकी परिभाषा कोश (Definitional dictionary of Microbiology)
- सूत्रकृमि परिभाषा कोश (Definitional dictionary of nematology)
- शल्यकर्म परिभाषा कोश (Definitional dictionary of Surgery)
- पर्यावरण विज्ञान परिभाषा कोश (Definitional dictionary of Environment Science)
- मृदा विज्ञान परिभाषा कोश (Definitional dictionary of Soil Science)
- कृषि कीटविज्ञान परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Agricultural Entomology)
- शैलविज्ञान परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Petrology)
- वाणिज्य परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Commerce)
- प्रबन्धन परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Management)
- राजनीति विज्ञान परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Politics)
- अन्तरराष्ट्रीय विधि परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of International Law)
- इतिहास परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of History)
- भारतीय इतिहास कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Indian History)
- पत्रकारिता परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Journalism)
- दर्शन परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Nature of Philosophy)
- भारतीय दर्शन परिभाषा कोश भाग-१ (Definitional Dictionary of Indian Philosophy 1)
- भारतीय दर्शन परिभाषा कोश भाग-२ (Definitional Dictionary of Indian Philosophy 2)
- भारतीय दर्शन परिभाषा कोश भाग-३ (Definitional Dictionary of Indian Philosophy 3 Scan)
- समाज कार्य परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Social Science)
- शिक्षा परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Education)
- पुस्तकालय विज्ञान परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Library Science)
- नाट्यशास्त्र फिल्म एवं टेलीविज़न परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Dramatics, Film and Television)
- हिन्दी लघु परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Small Dictionary in Hindi, bhAratavani.in Hindi)
- मानचित्रविज्ञान परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Cartograaphy)
- पाश्चात्य संगीत परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Western Music)
- कोशविज्ञान परिभाषा को(Arthmiti, Janankiki, Ganitiya Arthshastra Aur Aarthik Sankhyiki) (English-Hindi) (Definitional Dictionary of Lexicology)
- राजनय शब्दावली (Glossary of Diplomacy)
- पुरातत्त्व परिभाषा कोश (Definitional Dictionary of Archaeology Scan)
- हिन्दू धर्मकोश (डॉ राजबली पाण्डेय द्वारा रचित) (Encyclopaedia of Hindu Dharma)
- मनोविज्ञान पारिभाषा कोश-१ (Definitional Dictionary of Psychology 1)
- मनोविज्ञान परिभाषा कोश-२ (Definitional Dictionary of Psychology 2)
- परिभाषा कोश (अर्थमिति, जनांकिकी, गणितीय अर्थशास्त्र और आर्थिक सांख्यिकी)
- अर्थशास्त्र की शब्दावली (Glossary of Economics)
- अर्थव्यवस्था पारिभाषिक शब्दावली (Glossary of Economy आर्थिक शब्दावली)