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Originally Posted by ShellShock
I read quite a bit of historical fiction by British authors, and the British English dictionary of my Sony PRS 650 does a very good job with unusual words, like bibi, maidan, tulwar etc. Are words like this in the Kobo English dictionary?
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Looks like the
Kindle 4 English dictionary has those too:
tulwar:
indian: a sword, type of sabre
bibi:
indian: a man's wife (
dated: a man non-european gf)
maidan:
(in the indian subcontinent) an open space in or near a town, used as a parade ground or for events such as public meetings.
<origin> from urdu and persian maidan, from arabic maydan.
Maybe kobo dictionaries are not of the highest quality? (just a speculation)
Anyone else has had problems finding not-so-common words with them?