Saturday 13 March 2010 09:21:44 PHT
Philippine On-Line Dictionary
Welcome to the Philippine on-line dictionary. Many thanks to Tim Harvey for making available his database for use on this site.
Please note that this dictionary cannot translate sentences or phrases. It can only look up single words for you. If you enter a phrase, it will attempt to find all words in the phrase. If you need some phrases, try out our Cebuano Phrase Book.
If you are looking for a more extensive alternative: the excellent Cebuano dictionary by John U. Wolff is available on line at Cornell University: Vol I (A-K) and Vol II (L-Z). This is the best dictionary available for Cebuano. However, be sure to read the introduction before using it. This introduction explains the principles used to create this dictionary, and is very helpful in putting to good use the information found inside.
We also have Calderon's English-Spanish-Tagalog Dictionary available.
This dictionary has been queried 398490 times
Also have a look at our page of Boholano Proverbs and Boholano Riddles
| Buy Now! Kaufmann's Hiligaynon Dictionary on CD-Rom |
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| Kaufmann's Visayan English Dictionary is one of the best dictionaries ever written for the Hiligaynon language, which is spoken on the Island of Panay, and in Negros Occidental. This dictionary of over 1000 pages was first published in 1934 in Iloilo, and is now extremely scarce: you won't find it in a second hand book shop, and only a few libraries have it available. To make this valuable work available again, we have prepared a digital facsimile edition of it. A digital facsimile edition is no more than a set of images of the pages, not a searchable text. However, this is a very cost-effective way of reproducing old works, and introduces no transcription errors, as will occur if the work is retyped or OCR-ed. Together with an easy-to-use HTML interface, this dictionary can be used about as effectively as a traditional printed dictionary. To get an impression of how this works, We have placed the front matter and the letter 'W' online. Please note that the other links shown on these sample pages will not work, but they will in the CD-Rom version.
The CD-Rom contains:
To order the full dictionary on a CD-Rom, send 15 euros, 20 US dollars, or 1000 Philippine pesos in cash to: Jeroen Hellingman,
The price includes postage. Please do not send money orders or checks, as the bank charges for cashing these here is over 10 euros. Contact the webmaster if you have any questions. If I can obtain more scarce dictionaries and other works, I'll also produce digital facsimile editions of them. |
New: now also available: Calderon's English-Spanish-Tagalog Dictionary.
Instructions
You can search for words in English, Cebunao, Hiligaynon, and Tagalog by selecting the desired language in the drop-down box. Type the word you are looking for in the search box and hit enter. You will get results in all languages (if available). The dictionary now contains over 30.000 entries and we are working hard to extend it. If you are not sure about the spelling of the word, you can use a question mark (?) for a single unknown letter, or a star (*) for a sequence of letters. If you cannot find a word at first, try using a star before or after it.
If you are unsure about the spelling of a Philippine word, you can check the 'Phonetic Match' box. This will expand the search to words that are spelled similar to the word you provide, taking into account the phonetic structure of the Philippine languages.
When the results appear, the words in the results are clickable, so that you can quickly do a 'reverse look-up,' and find related words.
Please note that this database is experimental, and still contains a small number of errors. Please notify us if you encounter an error.
Original content © 2001-2009 Jeroen Hellingman, all rights reserved.
