ThePashto.com: An English-Pashto online dictionary

Here’s a treat for all those you have been yearning to learn the Pashto language: ThePashto.com, an online dictionary which helps you translate from Pashto to English and English to Pashto. According to a report by ProPakistani, the dictionary currently has more than 15,000 words along with grammatical descriptions of the words, and has the option of users registering themselves to help add more words. When typing a word in the search bar, a dropbox appears giving suggestions of words closer to the one you are typing. After translating a word from Pashto to English, a bar appears at the bottom giving more similar words to search for. On clicking a word in Pashto after the translation is done, it presents users with more meanings of the word. The website is lightweight and quick to use, and does not require users to download the Pashto font as it uses a phonetic keyboard. What the website can possible add is pronunciations of the words as well as their use in sentences and a virtual keyboard that can assist in typing Pashto words.