Madura EnglishâSinhala Dictionary (
Sinhala: āļ¸āļ°āˇāļģ āļāļāļāˇâāļģāˇāˇāˇâāˇāˇāļāˇāļŊ āˇāļļāˇāļ¯āļāˇāˇāļē) 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]
Development
Kulatunga, a
Sri Lankancomputer engineer,[16][17] wrote a
program in
Visual Basic for an Englishâ
Sinhala dictionary, using the dictionary entries from the EnglishâSinhalese 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 EnglishâSinhala dictionary.[22][23] Kulatunga later admitted that he had infringed the
copyright of the Malalasekera EnglishâSinhala 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]
References
^Kodagoda, Anuradha (17 May 2015).
"Madura's moxie". Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka) â Youth Observer. Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. pp. 8â9.
Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
Madura EnglishâSinhala Dictionary (
Sinhala: āļ¸āļ°āˇāļģ āļāļāļāˇâāļģāˇāˇāˇâāˇāˇāļāˇāļŊ āˇāļļāˇāļ¯āļāˇāˇāļē) 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]
Development
Kulatunga, a
Sri Lankancomputer engineer,[16][17] wrote a
program in
Visual Basic for an Englishâ
Sinhala dictionary, using the dictionary entries from the EnglishâSinhalese 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 EnglishâSinhala dictionary.[22][23] Kulatunga later admitted that he had infringed the
copyright of the Malalasekera EnglishâSinhala 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]
References
^Kodagoda, Anuradha (17 May 2015).
"Madura's moxie". Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka) â Youth Observer. Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. pp. 8â9.
Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2018.