[Smc-discuss] On Malayalam Diction and Tech Jargon

[Vinod]

On the question of finding appropriate translations,
do you think it'll be worthwhile consulting the Tamil
translations of Gnome? Tamil is supported in Mandrake,
and perhaps in RH too.

Is there a Tamil version of SMC, or a place where we
can find all the po files?

cheers,
Vinod

PS: You must have checked this already. But just in
case...

Don't underestimate the University library. I found
Sabdataaraavali and an English-Malayalam dictionary
here in Berkeley. If yours doesn't have them, often
they can get them for you from somewhere else...

pps: looks like tamilgnome.sourceforge.net is what I'm
looking for. But the site seems to be down.


--- Satyadev Nandakumar <satyadev at cs.iastate.edu>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   During the translation of the two files which I
> have done so far, it was
> painfully evident that there are no online Malayalam
> dictionaries
> available online - the only option that I could find
> was
> http://www.malayalamdictionary.org , but as pointed
> out already in this
> list, the dictionary is by no stretch,
> comprehensive.
> 
>   Though the suggestion might be a little heretic
> and more than a little 
> unpalatable, I think that if we use the online
> Sanskrit and Tamil lexicons 
> for the moment, we may be able to recognize some
> terms that can pass for 
> common-usage Malayalam.
> 
> University of Cologne has these excellent
> dictionaries:
>
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/otl_search.html
> [Tamil]
>
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/cap_search.html
> 
> [Sanskrit, Capeller]
>
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/mwd_search.html
> [Sanskrit, Monier-Williams]
> 
> A useful lexicon of technical jargon in Tamil that I
> found was:
> http://members.rediff.com/kalanjyam/
> 
> 
>   I do not know how welcome this suggestion would
> be, but for people like 
> me trapped in an alien land without a
> Malayalam-English or 
> English-Malayalam dictionary and Shabdataaraavali
> looking for some handy 
> method of translation, these avenues could be
> useful.
> 
> Regards,
> Satya.
> 
> 
> 
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