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Yves - "Sat Gurprasad" and "Sat Gurparsad" are exactly the same. There are always spelling variations when a language is transliterated. e.g. "Baisakhi" and "Vaisakhi."

As for the Gurmukhi dictionary, there is none that I know of. That's because Gurmukhi is not a language but rather a system of writing. Words in Gurbani come from Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu and other languages. Armed with multiple dictionaries, you can usually find the meanings of words in Gurbani, but remember that many words have double or even triple meanings. Our Gurus alliterated, repeated, and wrote in rhyme and rhythm, with lots of colorful imagery and many analogies. Translating Gurbani needs more than a word-by-word literal approach. It's poetry, and it assumes a knowledge of the Hindu pantheon, the Vedas and the Mahabharata.