gdict

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

Installation

From release:

# Download latest binaries
curl -LO https://github.com/Lodobo/gdict/releases/latest/download/gdict.AMD64
curl -LO https://github.com/Lodobo/gdict/releases/latest/download/install.AMD64

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin # create folder
install -m 755 gdict ~/.local/bin # install program to ~/.local/bin
./install # run the install script

From source:

Clone the Repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/Lodobo/gdict
$ cd gdict

Build and install:

$ make install

gdict will be installed in ~/.local/bin and the sqlite database will be created in ~/.local/share/gdict

Note:

Make sure ~/.local/bin is in $PATH. Additionaly, your system may not have a default pager. You may have to add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile:

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" # add ~/.local/bin to path
export PAGER="less -R" # Set less as the default pager
export LESSCHARSET=utf-8 # Enable unicode

Dependencies

The Go compiler is required to build this program. Make sure you have go version 1.18 or newer. You can install it from Go's official website

Usage of gdict:

options	Description
-w [WORD]	search word in dictionary
-p [part of speech]	specify part of speech
-l [lang]	specify language

Available languages:

ISO 639‑1	Full name
en	English
ar	Arabic
da	Danish
de	German
es	Spanish
fi	Finnish
fr	French
hi	Hindi
is	Icelandic
it	Italian
ja	Japanese
la	Latin
no	Norwegian
nb	Norwegian bokmål
nn	Norwegian nynorsk
nl	Dutch
pl	Polish
pt	Portuguese
ru	Russian
se	Northern sami
sv	Swedish
ur	Urdu
te	Telugu
zh	Chinese

See also

• Tatu Ylonen's Wiktextract: A utility for extracting data from wiktionary. The lexical data used by gdict comes from dumps provided by Ylonen on kaikki.org
• rdict: Another version of this software written in rust
• BetaPictoris`s dict: another command line dictionary
• wordnet: A large lexical database of glosses and synonyms