DDSA Platts Dictionary for Android

11 things about DDSA Platts Dictionary

1. Search results come first in a numbered list that displays the Urdu headword, the accented latin transliteration of the headword, and a chunk of the definition.

2. For fulltext searching, select the "Fulltext" search scope button and then enter the search term in the search box at the top.

3. To search for a headword, touch the search bar at the top (magnifying glass icon) to expose the on-screen keyboard and begin searching.

4. The search "frisky OR colt" returns 20 fulltext results; "frisky NOT colt" returns 6 fulltext results.

5. For example, the search "frisky colt" returns 1 result where "frisky" and "colt" can be found in the same definition.

6. To expand the front of a query, users can enter the "%" character at the beginning of search term.

7. By default, headword searches expand off the end of the search term.

8. In online mode, the full result page also has a page number link that the user can click to get the full page context of the definition.

9. After entering three characters in the search box, a scrollable list of search suggestions will pop up.

10. The wildcard character at the front of a word also expands search suggestions.

11. In other words, searching for "ram" will generate results for headwords that begin with "ram" and have any number of trailing characters, like "rāma" (رام राम)"rāmāwat" (راماوت रामावत), etc.