SINHALA DICTIONARY BY BUDDHADASA HEWAGE – By Dr Tilak S. Fernando A massive Sinhala -English was out recently by Buddhadasa Hewage, marketed by the e-Lanka website in Australia at U.S. $50. The writer ordered the dictionary from them. It has 1,500,000 English words, similar to 95,000 Sinhala words, and contains 2432 pages. It is published after professor G.P. Malalasekera’s Sinhala-English dictionary, but Buddhadasa Heage’s dictionary has more words. It was the first time a professional or an institution published a Sinhala-English dictionary of this magnitude. It was available at the Book Exhibition, also held at the B.M.I C.H. The author was born to a low-income family in a southern rural village in Sri Lanka. Buddhadasa Hewage prioritised his early life. He took on the frightening task of learning English on his accord. In late 1980, he managed to enter the Teachers’ Training College in Mirigama and started a distinguished teaching ...
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SINHALA-ENGLISH DICTIONARY COMPILED BY AWARD WINNING AUTHOR BUUDDHDASA HEWAGE The newest third edition of Sinhala-English dictionary authored by erudite personality Buddhadasa Hewage was launched recently, is massive book that consists of more than two thousand five hundred (2500) pages perhaps the largest dictionary ever published in Sri Lanka. It contains more than one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) English words, with significances translated from about ninety-five thousand (95,000) Sinhala words mostly uncommon words translated to precision with dead accuracy as an author publication. The dictionary is of high value to Sinhalese native language students as there are Sinhalese words similar, first to seek the English words which could be easily found via the alphabetical order The dictionary has been approved by the Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka as an essential library book. . Buddhadasa had been a teacher retired in year 1998 had launched on this endeavour having collected ...
Dec 7, 2022
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EXCEEDINGLY VALUED SINHALA – 2500 PAGES HUGE SINHALA-ENGLISH DICTIONARY BY BUDDHADASA HEWAGE – by Sunil Thenabadu The newest third edition of Sinhala-English dictionary authored by erudite personality Buddhadasa Hewage was launched recently ia massive book that consists of more than two thousand five hundred (2500) pages perhaps the largest dictionary ever published in Sri Lanka. It contains more than one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) English words translated from about ninety-five (95,000) Sinhala words mostly uncommon words translated to precision with dead accuracy as an author publication. The dictionary is of high value to Sinhalese native language students as there are Sinhalese words similar first to seek the English words could be easily found via the alphabetical order The dictionary has been approved by the Ministry of Education as an essential library book. Appended below are some excerpts from an interview a media personnel had had with Buddhadasa Hewage on ...
Nov 7, 2022
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