openrussian(1)

🎀 openrussian(1) — Offline Console Russian Dictionary 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the openrussian(1) page from the General Commands Manual. This is your terminal-friendly Russian dictionary era — no cap, it's giving offline console main character energy. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

openrussian — Offline Console Russian Dictionary (based on openrussian.org). periodt. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

openrussian [-L lang] [-V] [-p] [pattern ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here's the vibe: this is an offline console and terminal-friendly Russian dictionary, based on the database of openrussian.org. obsessed.

The search term is specified as a glob(7) pattern. All non-option parameters are concatenated into a single space-separated search pattern, so there is no need to quote search terms containing spaces. Any accent combining character (u0301) is stripped from the input pattern. The pattern is matched against:

• word base forms (infinitives, singular nominative nouns and singular nominative male adjectives);
• word inflections (conjugations, imperatives, declinations), unless the -V (verbatim) option is specified;
• translations according to the translation languages. The translation languages (currently en, de or a combination thereof) are guessed from the system locale(5), but can be overwritten using the -L option.

The accent is always ignored when matching search terms. If more than one words are found matching the search pattern, the user is presented with a list of them. After choosing one — or if there is a direct match — the information is displayed using the system man(1) page browser. The -p (pipe) option can be used to output the man-page source (see groff_man(7)) to stdout instead. This may be useful for storing them, generating PDF files, etc. iykyk. 🔥

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -L lang — Overwrite the translation languages. Either en (English) or de (German) may be specified. The space after -L is optional, so you may also for instance write “-Lde”. Multiple translations can be displayed on the same page by specifying -L multiple times. The order -L flags also matters and determines the order of translated material on the result page. the way order matters is so real.
• -V — Turn on verbatim matching, ie. turn off any kind of inflection matching and case folding. This may reduce the number of results for ambiguous search terms. vibe check: fewer results.
• -p — Output the man-page to stdout instead of piping it directly into the man-page browser. pipe it, bestie.
• pattern ... — The search term as a number of glob(7) patterns. 🌈

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

A simple lookup:

openrussian саморазрушение

Display the German translation:

openrussian -Lde саморазрушение

Display both German and English translations, giving precedence to German:

openrussian -Lde -Len саморазрушение

If you are unsure which consonants appear in this word:

openrussian самора[сз]ру[шщ]ение

Find more words derived from “разрушение”:

openrussian *разрушение

Avoid ambiguous search results:

openrussian -V коса

Look up by translation:

openrussian catch a cold

Graphical display using groffer(1):

openrussian -p кошка | groffer -Kutf8 --mode pdf2

You may have to specify a non-default font supporting cyrillic characters via groffer's -f option. font side quest, but make it slay.

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

glob(7), locale(5), man(1), groff_man(7), groffer(1), openrussian.org website. go explore, bestie. 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manpage and the openrussian.lua script was written by Robin Haberkorn. iconic author moment. 💖

This page was brought to you by openrussian.lua, dated 19 April 2019, hanging out in openrussian(1). byeee bestie 💖✨