Sources

A 1993 Russian–Karachay learner's dictionary of about 5,000 common Russian words by Gochiyaeva S. A., Suyunchev Kh. I. and Ebzeeva A. I., for senior schoolchildren and college students. Entries give Karachay translations with examples in context and set phrases.

A 1990 Russian–Karachay-Balkar phrasebook from the Karachay-Cherkess Pedagogical Institute, edited by Khabichev M. A., with more than a hundred themed sections of everyday phrases and word lists for residents and tourists. Appendices add a short grammar sketch, dialogues and translated proverbs.

A 1991 Karachay-Balkar-to-Turkish explanatory dictionary by Yılmaz Nevruz with 13,316 entries, rendering Karachay-Balkar in a Turkish-based Latin orthography, self-published online.

The Russian-to-Karachay-Balkar direction of the Elbrusoid online dictionary, which is the 1965 Russian–Karachay-Balkar Dictionary of about 35,000 words edited by Kh. I. Suyunchev and I. Kh. Urusbiev, giving Karachay-Balkar equivalents, glosses and example phrases for Russian headwords.

The Karachay-Balkar to Russian direction of the 1989 academic Karachay-Balkar-Russian Dictionary edited by E. R. Tenishev and Kh. I. Suyunchev, digitized by the Elbrusoid online library as a large headword-definition database of nearly 30,000 entries covering everyday vocabulary, idioms, and specialized terminology.

A three-volume explanatory dictionary of the Karachay-Balkar language, machine-readable text mirrored from an external digitized source.

A 2000 explanatory school dictionary of about 5,000 Balkar words by Guzeev Zh. M., with definitions written in Balkar and drawn from the literature on the school curriculum. Homonyms are numbered separately, proverbs serve as illustrations, and Karachay-only words and Russian loans are left out.

A 2003 Balkar–Russian school dictionary of about 6,000 words by Guzeev Zh. M., for Balkar pupils learning Russian and anyone learning Balkar. Entries carry part of speech, style labels and short translated phrases; dialect, slang, specialist and Karachay-only words are left out.

The 1997 second edition of a Russian–Balkar school dictionary of more than 5,000 common words by Zhulabov U. A., Zhappuev A. A., Otarov I. M. and Ulakov M. Z. Entries give grammatical forms, Balkar translations, examples and a few idioms, for pupils in Balkar schools and their Russian teachers.

A 2007 study of Karachay-Balkar phraseology by Akbaev Kh. M., written in Karachay-Balkar, on what counts as a set phrase and how set phrases carry meaning. It closes with a short dictionary of more than 2,000 set phrases with brief glosses.

A 1994 school dictionary of Balkar phraseology by Bashieva S. K. and Zharashueva Z. K. for secondary-school pupils. Each entry gives the meaning, usage in a sentence, a register label, examples from literature and the press, and synonyms and antonyms, with phrases taken from Karachay marked.

A 2010 dictionary of about 1,300 Arabic and Persian loanwords in Karachay-Balkar, including personal names, by Batchaev A.-M. Kh. Each entry marks the source language and gives a Russian gloss, usually with an example from literature, folklore or the press.

A 1999 Russian-language handbook by Baziev D. Kh. and Shautaeva N. N. giving the Balkar names of the region's plants and animals beside their Russian and Latin names, often with a short description. It is aimed mainly at biology teachers in Balkar village schools and ends with Russian and Balkar indexes.

Kochar Blimgotov's 2005 reference work on Karachay-Balkar medicinal herbs, the first such book in the Karachay language, listing about 195 medicinal plants with their names and uses in Karachay, Russian and Latin.

A 1998 Karachay-Balkar-Russian terminological dictionary of natural-world vocabulary by M. O. Botashev, listing plant and other natural-object names for teachers, students, translators, and journalists.

A 2010 dictionary of 1,212 obsolete and rare Karachay-Balkar words by Botashev M. P., with Russian glosses. Words are often marked as Karachay or Balkar, and some carry brief notes on old customs, games and beliefs.

A 1980 Russian–Karachay dictionary of socio-political terms from the Karachay-Cherkess Research Institute, meant to standardize Karachay terms for politics, economics, law and the military, and reflecting Soviet usage. It was written for translators, journalists and readers of political literature.

A 2013 dictionary of Karachay-Balkar homonyms by Guzeev Zh. M., written entirely in Karachay-Balkar. Each homonym gets its own numbered definition with examples from literature, folklore and the press.

A 2005 medical dictionary by Khapaev B. A. and Aybazova S. R. giving about 5,000 Russian medical terms with their Karachay-Balkar, English, German and Latin equivalents, plus an index of the Karachay-Balkar terms. The authors present it as the first Karachay-Balkar dictionary of a specialized field.

The 2022 second, expanded edition of Khapaev B. A. and Khapaeva A. B.'s etymological dictionary of medicinal-plant names, covering about 4,000 Russian names with Latin names, Karachay-Balkar and other equivalents, and notes on medical use. An appendix indexes about 1,500 Karachay-Balkar plant names.

A 2000 Russian–Balkar dictionary of about 3,000 specialized terms, from farming and household life to politics, science, grammar and mathematics, by Otarov I. M. and Gabaeva A. B. Each entry gives the Balkar equivalent, a definition in Balkar and translated examples, mainly for teachers and pupils in Balkar schools.

A 2006 Russian–Karachay dictionary of basic mathematical terms by Salpagarov Kh. M. and Bidzhiev Dzh. U., written to support primary-school math teaching in Karachay. It gives Karachay equivalents and definitions, often with English, German and French terms, and coins Karachay terms where none existed.

The 1992 second edition of Tekeev I. K.'s Karachay phraseological dictionary, explaining about 3,000 idioms, proverbs, greetings, blessings and curses with variants, synonyms and antonyms. Each is backed by quotations from fiction, folklore and the press, for pupils, teachers, writers and journalists.

An undated, abridged glossary of forgotten and rare Karachay-Balkar words with Russian glosses, drawn from the notes of Tolgurova (Malkondueva) A. Z. and grouped by theme, from water and terrain to horses, weapons, medicine and household life. Some entries carry short etymological remarks, and the preface calls it a work in progress.

Zharashuwlanı Zaynaf's 2005 illustrated explanatory textbook "Жаныуарла дуниясы" (The World of Animals), introducing schoolchildren to animal life, habitats, and their usefulness or danger to humans.

A 2017 explanatory dictionary of more than 5,000 Karachay-Balkar set phrases by Zharashueva Z. K., explained in Karachay-Balkar with style labels and examples from fiction and everyday speech. It notes where some phrases came from and is written for linguists, writers and journalists.

A short reference grammar of Karachay in English, in the Languages of the World/Materials series: the sound system, the noun and verb morphology, and the syntax, with the author's own Latin transcription. The grammar the engine was first checked against.