köken: From Wort (“word”) + -er- + Buch (“book”). Cognate with English wordbook, Dutch woordenboek, West Frisian wurdboek, Danish ordbog, Faroese orðabók, Icelandic orðabók, Norwegian Bokmål ordbok, Norwegian Nynorsk ordbok, Swedish ordbok and Volapük vödabuk.
köken: From Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós). Sense 1 stems from the title of Firuzabadi’s dictionary, the The Encompassing ὠκεανός, which became popular. Doublet of أُوقْيَانُوس (ʔūqyānūs).
köken: From woord (“word”) + -en- + boek (“book”), a calque of Late Latin vocābulārium. Compare West Frisian wurdboek (“dictionary”), German Low German Woordenbook, Wöörbook (“dictionary”), German Wörterbuch (“dictionary”), Swedish ordbok (“dictionary”), Danish ordbog (“dictionary”), English wordbook.
dictionary of Chinese characters; Han character dictionary (Classifier: 本; 部) · General term for dictionaries. · dictionary (an associative array; a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key)
köken: First used in the name of the Kangxi Dictionary (康熙字典).
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian قَامُوس (qāmūs), from Arabic قَامُوس (qāmūs), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós). It came to be used as a word for dictionary in Arabic after a lexicon published named Al-Qamus (see Firuzabadi). Doublet of ऊक़ियानूस (ūqiyānūs).
dictionary (any work that has a list of material organized alphabetically, e.g. biographical dictionary) · dictionary, lexicon (book listing and describing words) · lexicon (the vocabulary of a language)
köken: Borrowed from French dictionnaire, Medieval Latin dictionarium, from Latin dictio.
Etimoloji
A repurposing of older term 辞書 (jisho, “letter of resignation”) (see below), based on a reanalysis of the constituent characters 辞 (ji, “resignation, quitting; word”) + 書 (sho, “writing, record, document, book”). Influenced by Middle Chinese-derived term 辞典 (jiten, “dictionary”), wherein the 辞 character expresses the meaning word from Middle Chinese 辭 /辞 (zi), instead of the meaning resignation…