Armenian-English dictionary

Kouyoumdjian's Comprehensive Armenian-English dictionary digitized and available online. Nayiri.com (http://Nayiri.com ) today released the digital version of Mesrob Kouyoumdjian's A Comprehensive Armenian-English Dictionary (published in 1970 in Beirut). With about 70,000 entries, the dictionary is the largest Armenian-English dictionary ever printed.

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Yerevan, Armenia – July 11, 2012 – Nayiri.com (http://Nayiri.com ) today released the digital version of Mesrob Kouyoumdjian's A Comprehensive Armenian-English Dictionary (published in 1970 in Beirut). With about 70,000 entries, the dictionary is the largest Armenian-English dictionary ever printed. The dictionary is fully searchable by headword, with the English words in the definitions themselves linked to Kouyoumdjian's A Comprehensive English-Armenian Dictionary. The latter dictionary was published in 1981 in Beirut and contains about 96,000 entries.

Although the dictionary is written in traditional Armenian orthography (which is used widely in the Armenian Diaspora) words searched in the reformed orthography are converted to traditional orthography via a converter that supports a lexicon of over 156,000 base words. For example, when searching the word հարմարություն, Nayiri suggests յարմարութիւն.

The project took about one year to complete and was made possible by the financial support of the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Association (www.hamazkayin.com).

Earlier this year, digitized versions of Stepan Malkhasiants' Armenian Explanatory Dictionary (1944), Hrachia Ajarian's Armenian Etymological Dictionary (1926), Edward Aghayan's Modern Armenian Explanatory Dictionary (1976), and Ashot Sukiasyan's Armenian Thesaurus (1967) were also added to the site.

Since 2005, Nayiri.com provides electronic tools for the Armenian language, including freely accessible Armenian explanatory and bilingual dictionaries in both Western and Eastern Armenian. In 2010, Nayiri.com partnered with HySpell to provide the most comprehensive Armenian spell-checker for traditional Armenian orthography that includes a lexicon base of 156,000 words and over 5 million inflected forms. Nayiri.com is a free service which relies on the sponsorship of philanthropists, educational foundations, and all those concerned with the longevity of the Armenian language.

The newly digitized Armenian-English dictionary is freely accessible at the following URL:

http://www.nayiri.com/search?l=en&dt=HY_EN

Contact:

Serouj Ourishian

press@nayiri.com