---
name: "poglossary"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "translate-toolkit"
version: "1.1.1-3"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/poglossary"
---

# poglossary(1)

Creates a PO file containing terms and / or phrases that can be used as a glossary.

## NAME

poglossary - Creates a PO file containing terms and / or phrases that can be used as a glossary.

## SYNOPSIS

**poglossary** *language-iso-code* *input-dir* *project-name*

Where *language-iso-code* is the ISO 6399 code for your language, *input-dir* is the directory with PO files from which you want to extract terms, and *project-name* the name of the project or domain from which you are extract terms.

## DESCRIPTION

This tool takes a directory of translated PO files and creates a single PO file containing terms and / or phrases that can be used as a glossary. This compendium can be used to review word choice of a subset of words, and can be a useful start for a your terminology in Pootle or Pootling.

## OPERATION

**poglossary** makes use of [**pocompendium**(1)](/pocompendium/1.md) and some tools of the translate toolkit. It searches for all short terms and phrases in the PO files from the input directory and combines it into one file. Output is given in PO, CSV and TBX formats.