October 29, 2012

Online Pali Dictionaries

Found a few resources for looking up Pali words.  There's books you can buy on this as well but the convenience of an online search database is great too.  There's a lot of Lao words that were originally sourced from Pali.  Though they've been changed and often are shortened in Lao language today.  So if you have an interest in learning where certain Lao words come from and what they mean, it'll be good to keep these links in mind.

Pali-English Dictionary
From The Pali Text Society
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali

A Glossary of Pali and Buddhist Terms
From Access to Insight
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/glossary.html

Critical Pali Dictionary
From Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS) at The University of Copenhagen
http://pali.hum.ku.dk/cpd/search.html

Pali English Glossary
From Dhammadana
http://en.dhammadana.org/glossary.htm

(Related:  Read our post on "Where do many Lao words come from?" here.)

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