石叻

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (石叻)		石	叻
alternative forms		實叻／实叻 𡁃叻 實辣／实辣

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay selat (“strait”). Singapore was the capital of Straits Settlements as a British colony.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Shílè

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄌㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sek⁶ lik¹ / sek⁶ lak⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): Si̍t-la̍t

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sig⁸ lag⁸ / sêg⁸ lag⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Shílè
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄌㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Shíhlè
    • Wade–Giles: Shih²-lê⁴
    • Yale: Shŕ-lè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shyrleh
    • Palladius: Шилэ (Šilɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ lɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sek⁶ lik¹ / sek⁶ lak⁶
    • Yale: sehk līk / sehk lahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sek⁹ lik⁷ / sek⁹ lak⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ség⁶ lig¹ / ség⁶ leg⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛːk̚² lɪk̚⁵/, /sɛːk̚² lɐk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Si̍t-la̍t
    • Tâi-lô: Si̍t-la̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sidlat
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sit̚⁴⁻³² lat̚⁴/
    • IPA (Singapore): /sit̚⁴³⁻²¹ lat̚⁴³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sig⁸ lag⁸ / sêg⁸ lag⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: si̍k la̍k / se̍k la̍k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sik̚⁴⁻² lak̚⁴/, /sek̚⁴⁻² lak̚⁴/

Note: sêg8 lag8 - Jieyang.

Proper noun

石叻

1. (regional, dated) Singapore

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 新加坡 (“Singapore”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		新加坡
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	新加坡
	Malaysia	新加坡, 新國
	Singapore	新加坡, 星洲 nickname, 獅城 nickname, 小紅點 nickname, 石叻 dated, 石叻埠 dated, 叻埠 dated
Cantonese	Guangzhou	星加坡, 叻埠
	Hong Kong	新加坡, 星加坡, 星國, 星洲 nickname, 叻埠 dated
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	星加坡
	Penang (Guangfu)	星加坡
	Singapore (Guangfu)	星加坡
Southern Min	Xiamen	新加坡, 石叻 dated
	Quanzhou	新加坡
	Zhangzhou	新加坡
	Penang (Hokkien)	新加坡, 實叻坡
	Singapore (Hokkien)	新加坡, 獅城, 石叻 dated
	Manila (Hokkien)	新加坡
	Jieyang	石叻 dated, 叻埠 dated
	Singapore (Teochew)	新加坡
	Singapore (Hainanese)	新加坡
Wu	Shanghai	新加坡

References

• Duffus, William (1883) “Singapore”, in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, Swatow: English Presbyterian Mission Press, page 245