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Title: Are there any websites that contain Buddhist dictionaries?
Question: I believe that there many words translate from Buddha Sutra and I want to ask is there any website can translate the words meaning in English? Example Samman Samadhi

Answers:
sents: text: I recommend the Digital Pali Reader (a browser extension for Firefox and Pale Moon ).
answer_details: author: buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/7031/labaleine
score: 3
sents: text: Wisdom Library is one of the most reliable.
text: E.g. Samma Samadhi .
text: Also Access To Insight has a glossary.
answer_details: author: buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/295/Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena
score: 1
sents: text: For Sanskrit I use http://spokensanskrit.de/ and for Pali http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/
answer_details: author: buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/43/Andrei Volkov
score: 1
sents: text: I've tried the PTS Pali-English dictionary (for Pali).
text: There's a trick to using it though.
text: Enable Search entry words only (not definitions)
text: Type in the word you're looking for e.g. Samadhi When you search
text: it may not find the result.
text: So: Also select Words starting with (Example: bud) Type in fewer (just the first few) letters of the word you're looking for e.g. Sama
text: This may display several results --
text: hopefully you can find the word you're looking for on this list (maybe Samatha in this case).
text: This searching for a prefix (instead of for the full word) if often necessary, because Pali words have declensions and conjugations when they're used in sentences, which alters their suffixes.
text: I think that samadhi versus samatha (used in the example above) is a difference between Sanskrit and Pali.
text: The fact remains, however, that when looking for Pali words in the PTS dictionary
text: it's often necessary to search for the prefix.
text: Another reason why that's so is, I think, that Pali words are joined together (like in German).
text: Look at this answer for example (which uses the Critical Pali Dictionary instead of the PTS dictionary), which shows for example various words created from ārāma .
text: I note that ārāma isn't in the PTS dictionary however arañña is — which is another reason why you may need to look for prefixes (I found it by searching the PTS dictionary for ara after a search for aram found no results), i.e. that the Latinesque alphabet spelling might not be standardized.
text: Beware that the PTS dictionary requires of you a semi-exact spelling when you do a lookup, for example to find Kālika
text: you must search for Kālika (and searching for Kalika won't find it).
text: There's also this Glossology .
text: It only lists dhamma-related words (so it's not a full dictionary), but its entries are a bit fuller than the dictionaries'.
answer_details: author: buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/254/ChrisW
score: 1
sents: text: Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism is another source.
text: http://www.international.ucla.edu/institute/article/149341
answer_details: author: buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/5437/ramana_k
score: 1
sents: text: I found this one, which seems to aggregate answers from several different dictionaries.
text: Still a LOT of words missing from the Dhammapada (which I'm working on adapting) but a very useful resource for trying to pick apart Pali texts: http://dictionary.sutta.org/
answer_details: author: buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/12803/jerclarke
score: 1
sents: text: For Pali , I use The Pali Text Society's Pali-English dictionary .
text: Here are the options I choose for best results (in general) i.e. Search entry words only and Words starting with (as mentioned by ChrisW in his answer) For Sanskrit , I use Sanskrit Dictionary and Spoken Sanskrit .
text: I will even use Wiktionary e.g. for etymological information.
text: In fact, I tend to look up a Pali word, explore its Sanskrit ancestor/relative in the Sanskrit Dictionary and then check etymology in Wiktionary.
answer_details: author: buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/10802/Simon H
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
Numerous Pali online references exist including  http://www.international.ucla.edu/institute/article/149341, PTS Pali-English dictionary  (for Pali), Wisdom Library and http://spokensanskrit.de/  and for Pali  http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/.
Suggested websites and resources include the following: the Digital Pali Reader  (a browser extension for Firefox and  Pale Moon); PTS Pali-English dictionary; Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism; http://www.international.ucla.edu/institute/article/149341; Wisdom Library; http://dictionary.sutta.org/; The Pali Text Society's Pali-English dictionary;  the Access To Insight glossary;  http://spokensanskrit.de/ for Sanskrit and  http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/ for Pali.