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1. Madura English-Sinhala Dictionary 2006 (Soft32.com server).
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4. Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary (Sinhala: 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.

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Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary (Sinhala: 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.^[1][2] The dictionary contains over 230,000 definitions including various technical terms.^[3][4] As of 2016, the dictionary has been downloaded approximately 1,000,000^[5][6] and ranks 100th most visited sites in Sri Lanka.^[7][8] The dictionary is distributed as freeware.^[9]It was initially released on 23 November 2002.^[10][11]

Development[edit]

Kulatunga, a Sri Lankancomputer engineer,^[12]wrote a program in Visual Basic for an English–Sinhala dictionary, using the dictionary entries from the English–Sinhalese Dictionary of Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera.^[13][14] The program was marketed from 23 November 2002.^[15][16] In 2008 he started a free internet version of it, the first online English–Sinhala dictionary.^[17][18] 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.^[19][20]

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3. ^'Effectively bridging the language gap'. Ceylon Today – Hello. Ceylon Newspapers. 26 July 2015. p. 2. Archived from the original on 29 July 2016.
4. ^Karunamuni, Kanchana (8 August 2015). ''මේ වෙනකොට ලක්ෂ නවයක් මධුර ශබ්දකෝෂය බාගත කරගෙන' මධුර කුලතුංග' ['Up to date nine lakhs have downloaded Madura Dictionary' Madura Kulatunga]. Dinamina – Features (in Sinhala). Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. p. 20. Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
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10. ^'ඉංගීසි භාෂාව සිංහලයට සමීප කළ 'මධුර'' [English language made closer to Sinhalese by 'Madura'] (PDF). Rajina – Loka Lama Dinaya (in Sinhala). Sumathi Newspapers (Pvt) Ltd. 2 October 2015. p. 23. Archived(PDF) from the original on 2 July 2017.
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12. ^Rathnaveil, Ravi (18 October 2015). 'යටත්වීම වෙනුවට සටන් කිරීමෙන් උපන් මධුර ශබ්දකෝෂය' [Instead of surrender Madura Dictionary was born fighting]. Irudina – Pitu 8 (in Sinhala). Leader Publications. p. VIII.
13. ^Wanninayaka, Gemunu; Liyanage, Dinithi (13 November 2015). 'Nagena Ira Program With Madura Kulatunge (Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary Maker) 2015-11-13'. RanOne FM. EAP Broadcasting Company Limited. Archived from the original on 29 July 2016.
14. ^'Get the word right with Madura'. Business LK Magazine. 1 January 2016. pp. 92–95.
15. ^Muthumalie, Aruni (24 January 2016). 'ගහ බලපෑම් පරදා කාටත් වැඩක් ගත හැකි On line ශබ්දකෝෂයක් තැනූ මධුර කුලතුංග' [Defeating astrology effects and developed useful online dictionary for everyone by Madura Kulatunga]. Silumina – Sithmalyaya (in Sinhala). Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. p. 28. Archived from the original on 23 November 2018.
16. ^'Madura Kulatunga Beyond the written word'. The Island (Sri Lanka) – YOUth. Upali Newspapers. 11 December 2016. pp. 8–9.
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19. ^'මධුර ශබ්දකෝෂය නිර්මාණය කළ මධුර කුලතුංග' [Madura Dictionary creator Madura Kulatunga]. Resa – CYBER ROUNDUP (in Sinhala). Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. 29 January 2018. p. 2. Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
20. ^Devapriya, Uditha (27 September 2018). 'Beyond the written word'. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) – Features. Wijeya Newspapers. pp. A18. Archived from the original on 23 November 2018.

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