John U. Wolff's Cebuano-English Dictionary

Search the text of John U. Wolff's 1972 Cebuano-English Dictionary.

This is work in progress! The quality of the data is not up to the standards the finalized product will have. Please treat as a preview only.

This interface is mainly intended to help the proofreaders of the dictionary with their work. Also, not all functionality planned for the final release is included.

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Introduction

This web page can be used to look-up entries in John U. Wolff's Cebuano-English Dictionary.

Searching

You can search this dictionary in three ways.

• By head word (default). Here your search will be restricted to the original headwords.
• By Cebuano words. Here all entries containing the Cebuano word will be returned. Note that for common words, such as "ang", almost all entries will be returned.
• By English words. Here all entries containing the English word will be returned. Note that for common words, suchs as "to", almost all entries will be returned.

In all search modes, you can use wildcards. Use a star to represent a range of letters you don't know, for example, type sea* to find all words starting with sea. Type l???p to find all five letter words starting with an l and ending with a p.

Cross references in the dictionary are hyperlinks, and can be used to quickly go to the head word referenced to.

Instructions

Wolff's Cebuano-English Dictionary is one of the best dictionaries ever written for the Cebuano language, which is spoken on the islands of Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor, the province of Negros Oriental, and much of Mindanao. This dictionary of over 1200 pages was first published in 1972.

To lookup a word in Cebuano, simply type it into the search box. If you are not sure about the spelling of the word, you can use a question mark (?) for a single unknown letter, or a star (*) for a sequence of letters. If you cannot find a word at first, try using stars before or after it.

The search ignores accents and automatically matches "u" with "o" and "i" with "e".

Please note that this database is experimental, and may still contain several errors. Please notify us if you encounter an error.

Please do no try to harvest all words in this dictionary with a robot. You will waste bandwidth, and won't get you the best available data. If you need the entire dictionary in one file, please ask the webmaster. The author, John U. Wolff, and his publisher have given permission to reproduce this dictionary on this site, for which many thanks.

Daghan Salamat to the Distributed Proofreaders team and Scott Robertson for their help in digitizing this dictionary.