Arcane Lexicon · D&D 5e
Turn Common into Dwarvish words made for the table. The same word always gives the same result, and you can translate it back.
Translations are reversible: paste one back, set it as the “From” language, and translate to Common to get the original text.
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Dwarvish is the language of dwarves. In D&D 5e it is a standard language, written in the Dwarvish script, a set of runes. The rules name the language and its script and stop there. There is no word list, so nobody can look up the Dwarvish for “ale” or “forge”.
This page is about the Dwarvish of D&D 5e tables. Other games and novels have dwarf languages of their own, and this tool does not translate them.
Type English or Common, and the translator swaps each word for a short invented one. The words lean on hard consonants such as k, g, d and th, and many end in a short -u. The same word always gives the same result, so a toast you write tonight matches the inscription you write next month, and a player can learn that one word means one thing.
These words come from no rulebook and no other source. They were made for your table, and your clan can adopt them. This site is not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Each line below was run through this translator. Type your own line into the box above to get more.
The 5e rules give no Dwarvish vocabulary, so these are made up for the table. Each was generated by the translator, and the same English word always gives the same Dwarvish word.
Copy the Dwarvish text and paste it into the source box. Set “From Language” to Dwarvish and “To Language” to Common, then press Translate. The original line comes back. The swap button does the same job in one click.
This works because each English word maps to exactly one Dwarvish word. It decodes text made by this translator and nothing else. A Dwarvish line from another site or a forum thread will not decode here, because no shared dictionary exists.
Script. Dwarvish is written in the Dwarvish script, a set of runes. This translator writes its words in ordinary letters and draws no runes, so a line is easy to copy into a note or a prop. Gnomish uses the same script, which makes the Gnomish translator a natural next stop.
Speakers. Dwarves. At your table you might add smiths, miners, a vault keeper, the innkeeper who counts every coin. Those are ideas for your game, not rules.
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Dwarves speak Dwarvish, a standard language in 5e, written in the Dwarvish script of runes. The rules give it no word list. This translator fills the gap with invented words made for your table, so a line you write stays the same every time.
Type your line in English or Common, press Translate and copy the result. Read the words aloud as they are spelled. They are invented, so there is no correct accent to get wrong; if your table agrees on how a word sounds, that is how it sounds. Paste the line back later to check what it said.
No. This tool decodes only text it produced, because other translators use their own invented words and no shared dictionary exists. If you have a line from another site, translate it there. To get a reversible line, write the original here and keep the Common version.