The Jorai Dictionary is a searchable Jorai–English dictionary built from the words of the Jorai Bible. It is made for Jorai speakers, families, learners, teachers, church workers, researchers and anyone who wants to approach the language with care.
What you can do here
- Search from a Jorai word to its English meaning, or from an English word to the Jorai words that carry it.
- Browse the dictionary letter by letter in the Jorai alphabet order.
- Open an entry to see its part of speech, its meaning, the word pairs it is used in and, for some words, its older Austronesian form.
- Move to the previous or next word in alphabet order from any entry.
- Send a correction or a missing word through the contact page.
What is in this first edition
The first edition has 2,681 entries. They are the ordinary words of the 2016 Jorai Bible, Hră Ơi Adai Pơhiăp, published by the Bible Society of Vietnam. Names of people and places are left out. Together the entries cover nearly every ordinary word a reader meets in that Bible.
How to begin
- Open the dictionary and type a Jorai word or an English meaning into the search field.
- Use the letter buttons when you know how a word starts but not its exact spelling.
- Open an entry to read it in full, then use previous and next to explore nearby words.
- Read The Jorai Alphabet and Its Marks whenever a letter or mark is unfamiliar.
A first draft, open to correction
Every meaning in this edition was drafted from how the word is used in the Bible. Fluent Jorai readers are needed to check them, and the dictionary will change as their corrections come in. Please read each meaning as a careful first draft, and tell us when you know better.
Next: read About the Jorai (Jrai) Language, then How to Search Jorai and English.