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 |