MW Sanskrit Dictionary Pro

David Braginsky

About this app

A new edition Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary, offline, adjusted to digital use and having the following features:

* five transliteration schemes for Sanskrit words' display (Devanagari, IAST (Roman script with diacritics), ITRANS, SLP, Harvard-Kyoto)
* five transliteration schemes for input
* search for Sanskrit words both in headwords and definitions
* search for Sanskrit words with two regex expressions ('any one Sanskrit phoneme (consonant or vowel)', 'any number of phonemes')
* search for English words and phrases in definitions
* bookmarked entries
* transliteration utility for text conversion from one transliteration scheme to another
* separate input history (last 10 entries) for dictionary list screen, search for Sanskrit screen, search for English screen
* Sanskrit words in definitions as links for easy look-up
* 2 themes, 3 font sizes

The dictionary may contain errors, the work of editing is in constant progress.
For the sake of search for Sanskrit words in definitions all accents in them are omitted.
As well references to other languages are just mentioned as such though left out.

Ratings and reviews

I really like this app and its more convienient to use than basically all online dictionaries (plus I can keep it in my pocket), but I think others are right, the GUI is a bit clunky sometimes and you might type in a word and it doesn't go straight to that entry in the dictionary list but something nearby. Whereas the Sanskrit Search option can be frustrating because sometimes it takes a second for you to figure out you've entered it, and then you miss all the nearby words. Pretty great besides!

A simple yes or no with explanation would have been suffice. That and I find it a bit complicated to use. Not all words I type in come up. And sometimes when the word does come up, it doesn't directly go to it's definition, but rather gives other options which are not specifically the word I typed in. So I would have to scroll halfway down the page before I arrive at the word I was looking for. Why not just have it at the top because it was the word typed in the search? And why is the refund option not showing now?

This is truly a fantastic app. Much better than lugging out my big and heavy Monier-Williams book. And far more convenient as well. I'm sure it was a major effort to convert the book into electronic form.

What’s new

SDK 35 and system bars hiding