![]() Kailash Nadh, chief technology officer of Zerodha, says, “I have been running Olam (Wave), an English-Malayalam and Malayalam-Malayalam dictionary, since 2010. In 2018, the Zerodha team discussed the idea with Krishna and awarded him a grant. While Kittel’s dictionary has about 60,000 words, the Kannada-English lexicon compiled by V Krishna, a lexicographer based in Bengaluru, has about 1.6 lakh words.Īlar, as the new dictionary is called, is an authoritative dictionary with 2.4 lakh English definitions, and is the largest, most authoritative open source dictionary in the world, according to Zerodha, a brokerage firm which has collaborated with Krishna. A full 126 years after the publication of German missionary Ferdinand Kittel’s definitive Kannada-English dictionary, a similar, but a more comprehensive one, is out. ![]()
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