Kamusi Project
The long-running academic Swahili dictionary project, sense-by-sense rather than word-by-word.
What it actually is
Kamusi started as a Swahili dictionary project and Swahili remains its deepest dataset, with entries broken down by individual sense and linked to grammatical detail you will not find in quick-lookup sites. It is the right tool when two English words map to the same Swahili word and you need to know which sense is which. The site has since expanded into a many-language platform, which has made navigation clunky, and coverage outside the core Swahili data is patchy.
What it covers
- Vocabulary
- Reading