A small utility to translate words easily on the command-line.
For the translations the tool queries dict.cc. Any language supported by dict.cc is supported by this tool.
$ dict rust
German >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> English
========== TRANSLATIONS ==========
to rust ........................................................................... rosten
to rust ........................................................................... einrosten
to rust ........................................................................... verrosten
rust .............................................................................. Rost {m} [Eisen, Stahl, auch Pflanzen]
rust .............................................................................. Rostfleck {m}
rust [colour] ..................................................................... Rostbraun {n}
If you want to translate to another language, you can pass additional parameters:
$ dict -l RU EN dictionary
Russian >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> English
========== TRANSLATIONS ==========
словарь {м} ................ dictionary
You can also list available languages.
$ dict info available
The following language pairs are available:
DE EN => German - English
...
EN TR => English - Turkish
You can translate between German or English and a number of other languages. The following language pairs and abbreviations are available:
Language | Abbreviation |
---|---|
Bulgarian | BG |
Bosnian | BS |
Czech | CS |
Danish | DA |
Greek | EL |
English | EN |
Esperanto | EO |
Spanish | ES |
Finnish | FI |
French | FR |
Croatian | HR |
Hungarian | HU |
Icelandic | IS |
Italian | IT |
Latin | LA |
Dutch | NL |
Norwegian | NO |
Polish | PL |
Portuguese | PT |
Romanian | RO |
Russian | RU |
Slovak | SK |
Albanian | SQ |
Serbian | SR |
Swedish | SV |
Turkish | TR |
Language | Abbreviation |
---|---|
Bulgarian | BG |
Bosnian | BS |
Czech | CS |
Danish | DA |
German | DE |
Greek | EL |
Esperanto | EO |
Spanish | ES |
Finnish | FI |
French | FR |
Croatian | HR |
Hungarian | HU |
Icelandic | IS |
Italian | IT |
Latin | LA |
Dutch | NL |
Norwegian | NO |
Polish | PL |
Portuguese | PT |
Romanian | RO |
Russian | RU |
Slovak | SK |
Albanian | SQ |
Serbian | SR |
Swedish | SV |
Turkish | TR |