Agarathi Dictionary API
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For Agents
Look up Tamil word definitions, browse the supported Tamil dictionaries, and fetch the word of the day for language and content workflows.
Use for: I need to look up the Tamil definition of a word, List all Tamil dictionaries available on Agarathi, Get today's Tamil word of the day, Search for Tamil meanings of a specific word
Not supported: Does not handle translation, transliteration, or grammar parsing — use for Tamil dictionary definition lookups only.
Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Agarathi Dictionary API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. Agarathi is a Tamil dictionary service that exposes a small but focused API: list the available Tamil dictionaries, fetch the word of the day, and search for Tamil word definitions across multiple lexical sources. Useful for language-learning apps, content moderation pipelines that need Tamil semantic context, and AI agents handling Tamil-language inputs.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Agarathi Dictionary API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Agarathi Dictionary API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Agarathi Dictionary API.
Look up Tamil word definitions across multiple supported dictionaries
List the dictionaries available so an app can offer source selection
Fetch the daily word-of-the-day entry for editorial widgets
Search by Tamil word to retrieve associated meanings and parts of speech
Drive Tamil vocabulary features inside language-learning apps
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Agarathi Dictionary API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Tamil Language-Learning App
Tamil language-learning apps use Agarathi to expose dictionary lookups inside their lesson and reading flow. Learners tap a Tamil word and the app calls /dictionary/search to display all known meanings across Agarathi's supported dictionaries. /dictionary/list lets the app surface a source-picker so advanced learners can pick a specific lexicon.
Call GET /dictionary/search with the Tamil word for 'rain' and return all returned definitions grouped by dictionary source
Editorial Word-of-the-Day Widget
News and culture sites that publish Tamil content can drop a word-of-the-day widget on a homepage by calling GET /dictionary/wod once per day. The endpoint returns the headword and a definition that the site renders inside its template, refreshed via a daily cache.
Call GET /dictionary/wod each morning and cache the result for the homepage word-of-the-day block
Tamil Content Moderation Lookup
Content moderation pipelines that flag Tamil text can use Agarathi to confirm the meaning and register of a flagged term before deciding to action it. /dictionary/search returns dictionary entries that human reviewers see alongside the flagged text, reducing false positives on terms that are dialectal or archaic.
For each Tamil token flagged by an upstream classifier, call GET /dictionary/search and surface the top definition for a human reviewer
AI Agent Tamil Reasoning
Agents handling Tamil-language inputs can use Agarathi via Jentic to ground their answers in dictionary definitions instead of relying solely on LLM training data. The agent searches Jentic for the lookup, executes /dictionary/search, and uses the returned entries to disambiguate meaning before responding.
Search Jentic for 'tamil word definition', load the GET /dictionary/search schema, and execute with a user-supplied Tamil headword
Key Endpoints
3 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for agarathi dictionary api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/dictionary/list
List supported Tamil dictionaries
GET
/dictionary/wod
Fetch the word of the day
GET
/dictionary/search
Search Tamil word definitions
GET
/dictionary/list
List supported Tamil dictionaries
GET
/dictionary/wod
Fetch the word of the day
GET
/dictionary/search
Search Tamil word definitions
Why Jentic?
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
Agarathi API keys are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and injected into the X-Agarathi-Api-Secret header at execution time, so the agent never holds the raw key.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent (e.g., 'tamil word lookup') and Jentic returns the matching Agarathi operation with its parameter schema, so the agent calls /dictionary/search without reading docs.
Time to first call
Direct Agarathi integration: a few hours of API-key plumbing and HTTP wiring. Through Jentic: minutes — search, load, execute.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Agarathi Dictionary API through Jentic.
Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Agarathi Dictionary API?
Agarathi does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Agarathi Dictionary API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.
What authentication does the Agarathi Dictionary API use?
Agarathi requires an API key sent in the X-Agarathi-Api-Secret header. Through Jentic, this header value is populated at execution time from the encrypted credential vault.
Can I look up a Tamil word's meaning with this API?
Yes. GET /dictionary/search accepts a Tamil headword and returns matching dictionary entries. GET /dictionary/list shows the available dictionaries you can target.
What are the rate limits for the Agarathi Dictionary API?
The public spec does not document rate limits. For language-learning apps with bursty per-user lookups, cache definitions client-side so a single popular word is not fetched repeatedly. Back off on HTTP 429.
How do I integrate Agarathi lookups through Jentic?
Search Jentic for 'tamil dictionary lookup', load the GET /dictionary/search schema, and execute with the headword. Jentic returns the dictionary entries directly to your agent so you can render or reason over them.
Is the Agarathi Dictionary API free?
Agarathi historically offers a free developer tier with API-key gated access. Higher-volume tiers and commercial use should be confirmed with the Agarathi team via the docs site.
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