Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary

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]

Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary
Screenshot of Madura Dictionary showing the About screen
Developer(s)	Madura Kulatunga Database: Thibus
Initial release	23 November 2002; 22 years ago (2002-11-23)
License	Freeware
Website	www.maduraonline.com

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]

See also

Madura Kulatunga [simple]