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Kabardian dictionary with audio

Common Kabardian words and phrases with English meanings and the app’s audio. The full dictionary, 24,190 entries, is free in the Circassian app.

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EnglishKabardian
horse

In the dictionary

шы
shy
horse
шытепхъуэ
shytyepkhwe
horse blanket
шыбзыхъуэ
shybzykhwe
horse herder
Шыгъажэ дахэщ
Horse riding is great
Бгъу шы
Nine horses
The app’s Translate screen, recreated for this page: the first real dictionary results for “horse” with Kabardian as the target. Tap a speaker to listen.

Updated October 11, 2026 · 4 min read

Short answer

The Circassian app has a Kabardian dictionary of 24,190 entries, searchable in English, Russian and Turkish. It is free, needs no account and works without internet. This page has 143 common words and 87 phrases with the app’s audio.

These are common words from the app’s lessons. Each one is on the site’s topic or lesson pages with a second source (a dictionary entry or a line of the audio course), and each plays the app’s own audio. Search in English, in Kabardian or in Latin letters.

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H

I

J

L

M

N

O

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Y

Phrases

Whole sentences from the app’s audio course, whose scripts a native speaker of Kabardian reviewed, with the course’s own translation and audio. Words that are already on the list above are left out here.

Greetings and goodbyes

Introductions

Speaking Circassian

Polite words

Visiting and at the table

Family

Time and weather

Getting around

Shopping

Feelings and health

Likes and customs

The full dictionary in the app

The Kabardian dictionary in the Circassian app has 24,190 entries. It comes from a printed Kabardian–Russian dictionary (Apazhev and Kokov, Nalchik 2008), so every entry has a Russian definition; English and Turkish searches go through an index built from those definitions. On top of the dictionary, the app searches the 2,216 Kabardian phrases of its lessons, with a listen button where it has the audio.

The book was scanned from paper, so a few entries still carry scanning errors: a word that looks odd is worth checking in a second source. The words on this page come from the app’s lessons, not from the scan.

  1. Open the Circassian app and choose Kabardian as your course.
  2. Tap Translate in the bar at the bottom of the Learn screen, or the translate button at the top of Messages.
  3. Type a word in English, Russian or Turkish, or in Kabardian. The dictionary results appear under it at once, without an account and without internet.

Words by topic

Each topic page has its words in both dialects, with sources, example sentences and a quiz. More: numbers, the phrasebook, the Kabardian translator and the Kabardian lessons.

Days of the weekблыщхьэблыпэMonthsЩIышылэщылэ мазэSeasons and weatherгъатхэгъатхэColorsплъыжьплъыжьыAnimalsшышыFamilyанэнанэBody partsщхьэшъхьэClothesцейцыеHouse and homeунэунэNatureдыгъэтыгъэFood and drinksшхыншхыны

Questions

Is there a Kabardian–English dictionary?

Yes: the Circassian app’s Kabardian dictionary has 24,190 entries and is searchable in English, free on iPhone and Android. This page lists 143 common words and 87 phrases with audio.

How do I hear how a Kabardian word sounds?

Tap the speaker next to a word on this page, or in the app. The audio is the app’s own, the same as in its lessons.

Does the dictionary work without internet?

Yes. The dictionary is part of the app, so looking up a word needs neither internet nor an account. Translating whole sentences needs both.

Where does the Kabardian dictionary come from?

From a printed Kabardian–Russian dictionary (Apazhev and Kokov, Nalchik 2008), scanned into the app. A few entries still carry scanning errors.

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24,190 entries, 2,216 lesson phrases with audio, and 119 lessons in Kabardian or Adyghe.

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Sources

  1. Circassian app, version 5.9.0, checked October 11, 2026: the dictionaries (24,190 Kabardian and 3,499 Adyghe entries and 2,216 Kabardian lesson phrases, counted by running the app’s own code), the dictionary results on the screen above (the app’s own lookup, run the same day), the lesson words and numbers with their audio, and the phrasebook lines of the audio course.
  2. Kabardian dictionary in the app: Apazhev and Kokov, Kabardino-Cherkess–Russian Dictionary, Nalchik 2008 (хы, “six”, p. 496).
  3. Second sources of the words: listed under Sources on each topic and lesson page of this site (the Kabardian dictionary, the Adyghe dictionary or a line of the audio course).
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