Public Domain work of Shri Ram Narain Lal

We started off the dictionary with help from the dictionary compiled by Shri Ram Narain Lal, "Student’s Practical Dictionary", published in 1936. This work is now in public domain and is also available for download from this website and several other places on the internet.

WordNet 2.1 from Princeton University

In the English to Hindi dictionary provided on this site, the efficiency of search is improved by morphological processing on user queries. The morphological processing algorithms have been implemented as described in the WordNet 2.1 documentation. The exception tables (a part of Morphy - WordNet’s Morphological Processor) for nouns, verbs and adjectives are directly used from WordNet 2.1 under the terms of the license shown below.

Individual Contributors

Several people have helped increase the vocabulary in this dictionary. We gratefully acknowledge their contribution and are thankful to them for permitting us to offer their work to our users.

Mr. Nitin Desai and Mr. Malhotra

About 6500 words in the English to Hindi dictionary have been contributed by Mr. V K Malhotra (London, UK) and by Mr. Nitin Desai (Mumbai, India).

WordNet 3.0 from Princeton University

We also use WordNet 3.0 database for development of the Hindi dictionary. Below are the license terms of the Princeton University.

WordNet Release 3.0

This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, by Princeton University under the following license.  By obtaining, using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and conditions.:

Transliteration Technology

We use the user-friendly Transliteration Scheme developed by Google™ for providing Hindi transliteration on this site. The implementation uses the API provided by Google™ in conjunction with the awesome jQuery JavaScript library.