trinimon/dictionaries repository overview

⁠About the Dictionaries

The word lists imported into this database were originally published alongside the dictionary program DING by Frank Richter.

The program and lists are distributed under the GNU FDL, GPL, and Creative Commons CC-BY-SA licenses.

Many thanks to Frank Richter for making these lists available!

⁠Image Description

This image contains a PostgreSQL database with schemas for English and Spanish dictionaries.

The database is named dictionaries and is owned by the user translator.

Schemas inside the database are named according to the language they contain, e.g. english or spanish.

Each schema contains a single table named translations.

⁠Tags

• 1.3, latest: variables for translator credentials, gin index
• 1.2: Alpine 3.23, PostgreSQL 18.1, dictionaries as of 2026-01-02
• 1.1: Alpine 3.18, PostgreSQL 16.0, dictionaries as of 2023-11-12
• 1.0: Alpine 3.11.6, PostgreSQL 12.10, dictionaries as of 2023-04-30

⁠Requirements

The Docker image is available for amd64, arm/v6, arm/v7 and 386 platforms.

⁠Running

The following command starts a container and sets the PostgreSQL admin user password to secret:

docker run --rm -d \
           --publish 5433:5432 \
           --env POSTGRES_PASSWORD=secret \
           --env TRANSLATOR_USER=translator \
           --env TRANSLATOR_PASSWORD=anothersecret trinimon/dictionaries:latest

The database port is published on port 5433. The user translator has the predefined password secret.

Please note: during the first startup, the word lists are imported into the database. This initialization process may take a few minutes, which delays the availability of the database login. On subsequent container starts, no import is performed and the database becomes available more quickly.

Once the import is complete, connect to the dictionaries database and explore the language schemas to find the dictionary tables.

⁠Licenses

See license information for Alpine⁠ and PostgreSQL⁠.

For license information of the word list see this page⁠.