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I want a dictionary or translator that uses or is similar to to Google translation for translating from English to Arabic, vice-versa or between any languages, so, what is the best one? It would be better if this program has an indicator or launcher quick-list.

Zanna
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Black Block
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  • Do you want a widget to tap into Google translation, or do want a (free) app. ? – david6 Dec 11 '11 at 01:09
  • i want any thing (mmm, i think there is one widget for Cairo-dock) but it would be better to be an application. – Black Block Dec 11 '11 at 10:00
  • Voting to reopen. AskUbuntu has several huge software recommendation questions, and they are extremely useful to the community. Related: https://askubuntu.com/questions/186626/translator-offline-for-ubuntu-and-free-dictionaries-which-of-them – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Jan 21 '21 at 09:38
  • Voting to reopen. AskUbuntu has several huge software recommendation questions, and they are extremely useful to the community. Related: https://askubuntu.com/questions/186626/translator-offline-for-ubuntu-and-free-dictionaries-which-of-them I also added an answer at: https://askubuntu.com/questions/380847/is-it-possible-to-translate-words-via-terminal/1309774#1309774 – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Jan 21 '21 at 09:55

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This one may do the job:

sudo apt-get install artha

The HotKey is Ctrl+Alt+W. You can just select a word in any software and press the Hotkey combination to invoke Artha, its notification/window will then come up with the meaning

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  • this Ctrl+Alt+w doesn't work sometime.. what shall i do? – Vipin Verma Oct 01 '12 at 04:53
  • no, there isn't any – Vipin Verma Oct 05 '12 at 08:53
  • actually i had to manually run artha after the system startup before this shortcut can actually work. Once i have used it without the shortcut it can later be used wit shortcut. how to enable it in startup programs, so that the dictionary runs at startup itself? – Vipin Verma Oct 12 '12 at 04:23
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I usually use "Gnome Translate" Install gnome-translate for this. It's based on libtranslate, which can use several on-line services (including Google Translate, SYSTRAN, etc.) to translate text.

There is also a commandline version: translate-binInstall translate-bin.

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JanC
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try this one

sudo apt-get install dictd dict-gcide dict-moby-thesaurus
Scott Severance
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  • these are 3 different dictionaries??
    which one shall i try??     – Vipin Verma Sep 27 '12 at 07:19
  • i used these three commands and then searched in dash with keyword 'dict'. None of the results that turned up were working??? help plz – Vipin Verma Sep 27 '12 at 07:42
  • OMG ..got it. it's a command line dictionary. but i was asking for some GUI dictioary which supports word capture by means of some keyboard shortcuts – Vipin Verma Sep 27 '12 at 07:48
  • '$ gnome-dictionary

    The program 'gnome-dictionary' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install gnome-dictionary'

     – Vipin Verma Sep 27 '12 at 08:16
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Artha ~ The Open Thesaurus

This would be my recommendation.

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Bucic
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Google Translate Desktop

You can install Google Translate Desktop, it's written in Java and because of that runs everywhere, it also uses the Google Translator API.

Official Screenshots

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Download

Can be dowloaded here: Google Code - Google Translate Desktop (Last Release: July 28 2012).

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