Sanskrit Lexicon is a Sanskrit–English dictionary for readers who want a clear answer without giving up the original scholarship. Search 250,000+ Sanskrit headwords across 12 classical dictionaries and 9 specialist indexes. Each result opens with a plain-English definition and keeps the full source text one tap away, organized by meaning rather than scattered across separate references.
FREE TO START
Sanskrit Lexicon is free to download and use. Every reader gets 3 dictionary searches a day, plus the Word of the Day, favorites, personal notes, declension tables, Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, the widget and iCloud sync. Context searches on a word you have already opened never count toward the daily three.
SHARE A WORD
• Tap Share on any word, or on a definition card, to send it as a picture card on the app's painted sky, in day or night.
• Under the card comes a link that opens the word in Sanskrit Lexicon, or its page on sanskritlexicon.com where the app is not installed.
• Save it to Photos, copy it, or send it in Messages, Mail, AirDrop or Notes.
FIND THE MEANING THAT FITS
Sanskrit words often carry many meanings. Describe where you met the word, such as a ritual, a story, grammar, poetry, philosophy or law, and Sanskrit Lexicon finds the definitions that fit.
• Save the best matches as a personal category at the top of the definition screen.
• See the strongest matches first and remove results you do not need.
• Create multiple saved contexts for a word and revisit them across devices.
• Find saved context titles in Spotlight or open them through Siri and Shortcuts.
UNDERSTAND FIRST. STUDY DEEPLY.
• Start with a readable Simplified definition.
• Switch any card to Scholar view for the original dictionary text, notation, page references and source links.
• See different senses grouped into clear contexts, with the most common sense first.
• Keep your own note on any word and select or copy text from any definition.
FOLLOW THE WORDS AN ENTRY NAMES
Where a definition names other words, it opens with a Related line of tappable words, and a Related Definitions group gathers entries elsewhere that name the word you are reading. Tap either to open it in full.
SEARCH THE WAY YOU TYPE
• Use Devanagari, IAST, Harvard-Kyoto, Velthuis, WX, SLP1 or plain ASCII.
• Type "krishna" to find kṛṣṇa; no diacritics or special keyboard required.
• Paste an inflected noun or verb to find its root and grammatical analysis.
• Explore noun declension tables without leaving the word.
BUILT INTO YOUR APPLE DEVICES
• Ask Siri to look up a word, read today's word, or open a saved word or context.
• On iOS 27, ask Siri to send the word on screen to a friend, and it goes as a card.
• Add Look Up, Word of the Day and Open Word actions in Shortcuts, and pass a word on as a picture.
• Find favorites, recent words, saved contexts and note text in Spotlight.
• Put the Word of the Day widget on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and favorite today's word from it.
• Continue reading across devices with iCloud sync and Handoff.
MAKE SANSKRIT A DAILY PRACTICE
A hand-curated Word of the Day changes at midnight, is the same on all your devices and never repeats. Save favorites, keep notes and return to recent words whenever you need them.
DAY AND NIGHT
A painted sky, parchment cards and gilded edges frame every definition. In Dark Mode the sky becomes a starlit dusk and the cards darken to match. A button on the search screen switches between day and night, and the app remembers your choice.
MADE TO BE READ
Text follows your Dynamic Type setting to the largest accessibility sizes. Search, share and note controls are labeled for VoiceOver, results are spoken as they arrive, and Reduce Motion stills the animations.
Dictionary and context searches require an internet connection. No account is required.
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