rdict

An offline CLI dictionary written in rust, using data from wiktionary.

Installation

Install the Rust toolchain: https://rustup.rs

Install from source:

$ cargo install --git https://github.com/Lodobo/rdict

Download json (1.5GB):

# This will download a jsonl file to ~/.local/share/rdict
$ rdict download-json

Create sqlite database:

# This will create a .db file to ~/.local/share/rdict
$ rdict json-to-db

Usage of rdict:

Options	Description
-w [WORD]	Search word
--help	Print help
-V	Print version

See also

• Tatu Ylonen's Wiktextract: A utility for extracting data from wiktionary. The lexical data used by rdict comes from dumps provided by Ylonen on kaikki.org

  Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022.

• gdict: Another version of this software written in go.