Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary () is a free
electronic dictionary
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service developed by
Madura Kulatunga.
It is available as computer
software
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, an online
website
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and an
android
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app.
The dictionary contains over 230,000 definitions including various technical terms.
As of 2016, the dictionary has been downloaded approximately 1,000,000
and ranks 100th most visited sites in Sri Lanka.
The dictionary is distributed as
freeware
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.
It was initially released on 23 November 2002.
Development
Kulatunga, a
Sri Lankan computer engineer,
wrote a
program
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in
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for an English–
Sinhala dictionary, using the dictionary entries from the English–Sinhalese Dictionary of
Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera.
The program was marketed from 23 November 2002.
In 2008 he started a free internet version of it, the first online English–Sinhala dictionary.
Kulatunga later admitted that he had infringed the
copyright
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of the Malalasekera English–Sinhala dictionary in creating his software, but he said in 2015 that he no longer infringed on copyrights.
In 2017 he developed and added Sinhala keyboard input method to his Google Play android app.
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Madura English-Sinhala Dictionary
English bilingual dictionaries
Sinhala language
Online dictionaries
Sri Lankan websites