Working with Glossaries

Building glossary

Glossary is a local-only database of translation pairs. These pairs are not specific to any language pair. Glossary pairs do not get contributed to the online collaborative translation memory, even if contributions are enabled.

You can use the glossary either to search for phrases or to pre-translate localization from the source language.

The following online machine translation providers support the use of glossary for pre-translation:

• DeepL

Adding a glossary entry

You can add glossary entries in Poedit.

Steps

1. Enable the sidebar by clicking the [ |] icon (if not shown already).
2. Select the Terminology tab.
3. Click the + icon.
4. Select Add glossary entry….
5. In the Term field, enter the term in the source language.
6. In the Translation field, enter the translation.
7. Optional: Add notes.
8. Click Save.

Importing glossary entries from a CSV file

You can import glossary entries from a CSV file in Poedit.

NOTE: Poedit supports the following column separators: , (comma) or ; (semicolon)

Steps

1. Enable the sidebar by clicking the [ |] icon (if not shown already).

2. Select the Terminology tab.

3. Click the + icon.

4. Select Import glossary from CSV file….

5. Select and open the CSV file.

6. Optional: In the Source language field, select another source language if it was not recognized correctly.

7. Optional: In the Translation language field, select another translation language if it was not recognized correctly.

8. Define the import rules:

   • If the first row contains an irrelevant entry, such as a language pair definition, select Skip the first row.
   • In the Column separator field, select the separator used in the CSV file.
   • In the Term column field, select the number of the column that contains terms in the source language.
   • In the Definition column field, select the number of the column that contains translations of terms.
   • Optional: Select Notes column if the CSV file contains an additional column with notes. Select the number of the column that contains notes for glossary terms.

9. Click Import.

10. Poedit displays statistics of imported terms.

11. Click OK.