The Datuk corpus is a free and open source Malayalam–Malayalam dictionary dataset with over 106,000 definitions for more than 83,000 Malayalam words. It is an extensively refined and semanticized version of Datuk's original ASCII digitisation work, and incorporates tens of thousands of changes and corrections. The majority of words and definitions are grammar tagged, and a large number of records also have additional metadata attached to them.

The corpus is available as a searchable dictionary on https://olam.in

The corpus is a single YAML file, datuk.yaml, that is a single array of every single entry. Each entry is in the following format.

- id: '55127'     # Orignal ID of the entry
  head: പ        # Alphabet / letter of the entry word.
  entry: പകിടി    # Entry Word.
  origin: ''      # Tag denoting the origin.
  info: ''        # Additional (optional) info.
  defs:           # Array of definitions.
  - entry: ഉപായം  # Definition.
    type: നാ.      # Type
  - entry: വഞ്ചന
    type: നാ.
  - entry: നേരമ്പോക്ക്
    type: നാ.
  - entry: താടി
    type: നാ.
  - entry: കൈമടക്ക്, കെട്ടിടം വാടകയ്ക്കുകൊടുക്കുമ്പോള്‍ ഉടമസ്ഥനു രേഖയില്ലാതെ മുന്‍കൂര്‍കൊടുക്കുന്ന
      തുക
    type: നാ.
  - entry: വലിയ തലപ്പാവ്. (പ്ര.) പകിടിക്കഥ = ചിരിപ്പിക്കാനുള്ള കഥ
    type: നാ.

To add new entries, a YAML block like the one shown above can be appended to the corpus file.

These are the abbreviated types from the original corpus. When adding new words, the appropriate ones may be used.

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