Kannada dictionary online

The absence of a Kannada dictionary online has been a source of pain for a while (unlike Sanskrit dictionaries). Mohan pointed me to the one at kannadakasturi.com with the warning that it is very slow. He also found that the Internet Archive has a scanned copy of the Kittel dictionary (A Kannada-English school-dictionary : chiefly based on the labours of the Rev. Dr. F. Kittel, by the Rev. J. Bucher (1899)). This is actually a fairly good dictionary and could serve most common purposes. Until someone digitizes it and puts it online (this version at least is out of copyright), we will have to make do with looking up words in this scanned copy. To make it easier to find the right page, below is an “index” to the dictionary. Look down the second column in the table below to find the approximate position of the word you want, then click on the corresponding link in the left column. The gap between successive entries is at most 10 pages, so you should be able to find any word with a click and at most 3 page flips.

http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/n13/mode/2up	a
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/10/mode/2up	aDasatte
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/20/mode/2up	annu
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/30/mode/2up	artha
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/38/mode/2up	A
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/48/mode/2up	i
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/56/mode/2up	I
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/58/mode/2up	u
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/68/mode/2up	ura
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/70/mode/2up	U, R
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/72/mode/2up	RR, lR, lRR, e
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/76/mode/2up	E
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/78/mode/2up	ai
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/80/mode/2up	o
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/84/mode/2up	O
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/86/mode/2up	au
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/88/mode/2up	M H
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/88/mode/2up	k
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/98/mode/2up	kampu
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/108/mode/2up	kAruNya
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/118/mode/2up	kusaku
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/128/mode/2up	kollAra
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/132/mode/2up	kh
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/134/mode/2up	g
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/144/mode/2up	gillA
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/154/mode/2up	gh, G, c
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/164/mode/2up	citra
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/168/mode/2up	ch, j
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/178/mode/2up	jIva
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/180/mode/2up	jh, J, T
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/182/mode/2up	Th, D
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/184/mode/2up	Dh, N
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/186/mode/2up	t
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/196/mode/2up	tAmbUla
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/206/mode/2up	tETu
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/210/mode/2up	th, d
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/220/mode/2up	dumuku
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/226/mode/2up	dh
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/230/mode/2up	n
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/240/mode/2up	nikAya
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/250/mode/2up	neTTage
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/252/mode/2up	p
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/262/mode/2up	parihAsa
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/272/mode/2up	punarnava
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/282/mode/2up	prabOdha
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/286/mode/2up	ph
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/288/mode/2up	b
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/298/mode/2up	bANali
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/308/mode/2up	bese
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/312/mode/2up	bh
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/318/mode/2up	m
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/328/mode/2up	marasuttu
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/338/mode/2up	mIru
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/348/mode/2up	mEle
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/352/mode/2up	y
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/354/mode/2up	r
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/362/mode/2up	[?]
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/364/mode/2up	l
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/370/mode/2up	v
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/380/mode/2up	vidyamAna
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/390/mode/2up	z
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/398/mode/2up	S
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/400/mode/2up	s
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/410/mode/2up	sambALisu
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/420/mode/2up	siddhAnta
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/430/mode/2up	sthAyi
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/432/mode/2up	h
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/442/mode/2up	hiDi
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/452/mode/2up	hore
http://archive.org/stream/kannadaenglishsc00buchrich#page/454/mode/2up	L, [?]
Note: Pages 262–3 are missing, so from there on, printed page = 2 + number in link

Future work:

• Extend this data to all pages in the dictionary (around 454/2 = 227)
• Write a web interface where you can type a word/prefix and be taken to the exact page

Feel free to take it up.

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