tech-mezgeb-qalat 1.0.0

Ethiopian tech terminology dictionary (English <-> Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrigna) built from the ELRC ICT Terms Dictionary.

tech-mezgeb-qalat (Python)

Ethiopian tech terminology dictionary for Python — translates English tech terms into Amharic, Afaan Oromo, and Tigrigna. Built from the 2,800+ term ELRC ICT Terminology Dictionary. Useful for Django/Flask apps, NLP pipelines, and machine-translation data augmentation.

Install

pip install tech-mezgeb-qalat

Usage

from tech_mezgeb_qalat import Dictionary, elrc_trans

dictionary = Dictionary()

dictionary.translate("Save", "amharic")   # "አስቀምጥ"
dictionary.translate("Save", "oromo")     # "Olkaa'i"
dictionary.translate("Save", "tigrigna")  # "ኣቕምጥ"

dictionary.define("accuracy")
# "The preciseness of something, e.g. an accurate measurement"

dictionary.has("firewall")     # True / False
dictionary.lookup("access")    # every sense of "access" (noun, verb, etc.)
dictionary.search("access")    # substring match, for autocomplete
dictionary.count()             # total entries loaded

# Or use the module-level singleton + helper directly:
elrc_trans("Settings", "amharic")  # ቅንብሮች

The dataset

Same terms.json shared across all tech-mezgeb-qalat packages (PHP/JS/Python) — see the root repo README for details on its shape and how to regenerate it from the source PDF.

Development

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

License

MIT for the code. The terminology dataset is derived from the ELRC ICT Terms Dictionary — please preserve attribution to the ICT Development Office and Ethiopian Languages Research Center if you redistribute the raw data itself.