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• Multilingual search, including Devanāgarī. The search command will look for the keyword you enter in the empty text field. You can enter English, Wambule or Nepali keywords.
  
  Wambule and Nepali keywords can be entered either in Devanāgarī script, in the Indological transliteration from the Devanāgarī script or in phonological transcription.
  
  
• Number of lexemes returned. A maximum of 20 lexemes will be returned by the database.
  
  
• Word or string search. You can choose to search by word or by string. Both types of searches are not case-sensitive.
  
  
  1. A word search matches your keyword against whole words only. Due to technical reasons, words should always be four characters or more long. For example, the word go will not result in any matches because this keyword is only two characters long.
  2. A string search matches your keyword against whole words or parts of words (letters, syllables) in the database. Strings are one or more characters long. For example, the string ship will match ship, worshipping, relationship.
  
  
• Boolean word search. Boolean search is a more complex search than the basic search on a single keyword of four characters or more. You can use one or more of the following signs in a query:
  
  
  1. Plus sign (+). A leading plus sign indicates that this keyword must be present. For instance, bird +female will match records that contain both bird and female.
  2. Minus sign (-). A leading minus sign indicates that this keyword must not be present. For instance, bird -female will match records that contain bird but not female.
  3. Quotes ("..."). If you wan to enter more than one search term (a phrase) in the text field, you must use double quotation marks. For instance "bird droppings" will match records that contain the phrase bird droppings. Only records that contain bird will be matched if you enter bird droppings without quotation marks.
  4. Asterisk (*). An asterisk is the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word. For instance, bird* will match records that contain bird, birds and bird's. Using an asterisk in a word search is roughly equivalent to performing a string search.
  
  
• Avoiding irrelevant matches. In string search, avoid using common words like the and in as this will result in a lot of irrelevant matches. Specify the word class to narrow down your search.
  
  
• Information returned. The Wambule dictionary provides information such as etymological notes, literary spellings and Nepali translations, in Devanagari script and Roman transliteration.Dialectal information is also provided (Hilepāne, Wamdyal, Udaipure). The lexical entry of Wambule literary forms is given in transliterated orthography which is preceded by the original Devanāgarī form and by numbers referring to the sources listed in Opgenort (2004b, 2005).