Development status Active Website maduraonline.com | License Freeware | |
Developer(s) Madura KulatungaDatabase: Thibus Initial release November 23, 2002; 14 years ago (2002-11-23) | ||
Madura English-Sinhala Dictionary (Sinhalese: මධුර ඉංග්රීසි-සිංහල ශබ්දකෝෂය) is a free electronic dictionary service developed by Madura Kulatunga. It is available as computer software, an online website and an android 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. It was initially released on November 23, 2002.
Development
Kulatunga, a Sri Lankan computer engineer, wrote a program in Visual Basic 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 of the Malalasekera English-Sinhala dictionary in creating his software, but he said in 2015 that he no longer infringed on copyrights.