Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary
Sri Lankan free electronic dictionary service
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Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary (Sinhala: මධුර ඉංග්රීසි–සිංහල ශබ්දකෝෂය) is a free electronic dictionary service developed by Madura Kulatunga.[1][2] It is available as computer software, an online website and an android app.[3][4] The dictionary contains over 230,000 definitions including various technical terms.[5][6] As of 2016, the dictionary has been downloaded approximately 1,000,000[7][8][9] and ranks 100th most visited sites in Sri Lanka.[10][11] The dictionary is distributed as freeware.[12][13] It was initially released on 23 November 2002.[14][15]
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Screenshot of Madura Dictionary showing the About screen | |
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| Release | 23 November 2002 |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | www |
Development
Kulatunga, a Sri Lankan computer engineer,[16][17] wrote a program in Visual Basic for an English–Sinhala dictionary, using the dictionary entries from the English–Sinhalese Dictionary of Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera.[18][19] The program was marketed from 23 November 2002.[20][21] In 2008 he started a free internet version of it, the first online English–Sinhala dictionary.[22][23] Kulatunga later admitted that he had infringed the copyright of the Malalasekera English–Sinhala dictionary in creating his software, but he said in 2015 that he no longer infringed on copyrights.[24][25] In 2017 he developed and added Sinhala keyboard input method to his Google Play android app.[26][27]