Sri Lanka

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See also Šrilanka, Šri Lanka, and Srí Lanka

[edit] English

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Sri Lanka

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[edit] Etymology

From Sinhalese ශ්‍රී ලංකාව (śrī laṃkā), from Sanskrit श्री (śrī, “holy”) and लंका (lankā, “island”).

[edit] Pronunciation

IPA: /sriˈlɑːŋkə/, /sriˈlæŋkə/, /ʃriˈlɑːŋkə/^[1]^[2]
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Sri Lanka

Country in South Asia. Official name: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

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Names of Sri Lanka

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“Sri Lanka” has been the official name since 1972; prior to that it was Ceylon.

Place names are a source of controversy in Sri Lankan politics, in connection with the Sri Lankan Civil War, and some find “Sri Lanka” to be too Sinhalese. A Tamil name is Eelam, and some Tamil political parties retain “Ceylon” in their name, such as the All Ceylon Tamil Congress and the Ceylon Workers’ Congress.

[edit] Synonyms

Ceylon (no longer used)
Serendib (ancient)
Serendip (ancient)

[edit] Translations

a country in South Asia

Afrikaans: Sri Lanka (af)
Arabic: سريلانكا (ar) (sriilaankaa) f.
Armenian: Շրի Լանկա (hy) (Šri Lanka)
Azeri: Şri-Lanka (az)
Belarusian: Шры-Ланка (be) (Šry-Lanká) f.
Bengali: শ্রীলঙ্কা (bn) (shrilôngka)
Bosnian: Šri Lanka (bs) f.
Breton: Sri Lanka
Bulgarian: Шри Ланка (bg) (Šri-Lánka)
Burmese: သီရိလင်္ကာနိုင်ငံ (my) (thiri.linka naingngan)
Catalan: Sri Lanka (ca) f.
Chinese:

Mandarin: 斯里蘭卡 (cmn), 斯里兰卡 (cmn) (Sīlǐlánkǎ)
Croatian: Šri Lanka (hr) f.
Czech: Srí Lanka (cs) f.
Danish: Sri Lanka (da)
Dutch: Sri Lanka (nl)
Dzongkha: ཤྲཱྀ་ལངཀ (dz)
Esperanto: Lanko, Sri-Lanko, Srilanko
Finnish: Sri Lanka (fi)
French: Sri Lanka (fr)
Georgian: შრი-ლანკა (ka) (šri-lanka)
German: Sri Lanka (de)
Greek: Σρι Λάνκα (el) (Sri Lánka) f.
Gujarati: શ્રીલંકા (gu) (śrīlaṅkā)
Hebrew: סרי לנקה (he)
Hindi: श्रीलंका (hi) (śrīlaṅkā) m.
Hungarian: Srí Lanka (hu)
Icelandic: Sri Lanka (is)
Interlingua: Sri Lanka (ia)
Italian: Sri Lanka (it)
Japanese: スリランカ (ja) (Suriranka)
Kalenjin: Srilanka
Kamba: Srilanka
Kannada: ಶ್ರೀಲಂಕಾ (kn) (śrīlaṅkā)
Kazakh: Шри-Ланка (kk) (Şri-Lanka)
Khmer: ស្រីលង្កា (km) (srəy langkaa)
Kikuyu: Srilanka

Korean: 스리랑카 (ko) (Seurirangka)
Lao: ສີລັງກາ (lo) (sī-lang-kā)
Luhya: Srilanka
Luo: Srilanka
Macedonian: Шри Ланка (mk) (Šri Lánka) f.
Malayalam: ശ്രീലങ്ക (ml) (śrīlaṅka)
Maltese: Sri Lanka (mt)
Marathi: श्रीलंका (mr) (śrīlaṅkā)
Meru: Srilanka, Srilanka
Navajo: Swii Lankʼa
Norwegian: Sri Lanka (no)
Persian: سری‌لانکا (fa) (Srilânkâ)
Polish: Sri Lanka (pl) f.
Portuguese: Sri Lanka (pt)
Punjabi: ਸ੍ਰੀ ਲੰਕਾ (pa) (srī lakā)
Romanian: Sri Lanca (ro)
Russian: Шри-Ланка (ru) (Šri-Lánka, Šri-Lanká) f.
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: Шри Ланка (sh) f.

Roman: Šri Lanka (sh) f.
Sinhalese: ශ්‍රී ලංකාව (si) (śri lankāva), ශ්‍රී ලංකා (si) (śri lankā)
Slovak: Srí Lanka (sk) f.
Slovene: Šri Lanka (sl) f.
Spanish: Sri Lanka (es)
Swahili: Sirilanka (sw)
Swedish: Sri Lanka (sv)
Tagalog: Sri Lanka (tl)
Tajik: Шри-Ланка (tg) (Šri-Lanka)
Tamil: இலங்கை (ta) (ilaṅkai)
Tatar: Шри-Ланка (tt) (Şri-Lanka)
Telugu: శ్రీలంక (te) (śrīlaṅka)
Thai: ศรีลังกา (th) (sĕe-lang-gaa)

Ancient: ลังกาทวีป (Langkā Thawip), สิงหลทวีป (Singhon Thawip)
Turkish: Sri Lanka (tr)
Ukrainian: Шрі-Ланка (uk) (Šri-Lanká) f.
Urdu: سری لنکا (ur) (srī lankā) m.
Uzbek: Shri-Lanka (uz)
Vietnamese: Sri Lanka (vi)

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[edit] Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Sri Lanka

Wikipedia ^nl

[edit] Proper noun

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (an island and a country)

[edit] Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

Sri Lanka

Wikipedia ^fi

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

[edit] Declension

Declension of Sri Lanka (type kala)

	singular	plural
nominative	Sri Lanka	–
genitive	Sri Lankan	–
partitive	Sri Lankaa	–
accusative	Sri Lanka Sri Lankan	–
inessive	Sri Lankassa	–
elative	Sri Lankasta	–
illative	Sri Lankaan	–
adessive	Sri Lankalla	–
ablative	Sri Lankalta	–
allative	Sri Lankalle	–
essive	Sri Lankana	–
translative	Sri Lankaksi	–
instructive	–	–
abessive	Sri Lankatta	–
comitative	–	–
¹⁾ Rare.

[edit] German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka n.

Sri Lanka

[edit] Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka m.

Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka f.

Sri Lanka

[edit] Declension

	Singular only
Nominative	Sri Lanka
Genitive	Sri Lanki
Dative	Sri Lance
Accusative	Sri Lankę
Instrumental	Sri Lanką
Locative	Sri Lance
Vocative	Sri Lanko

[edit] Derived terms

Lankijczyk m., Lankijka f.
adjective: lankijski

[edit] Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Sri Lanka

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[edit] Proper noun

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

[0] "Sri Lanka" in several reference works

[1] Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary

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[2]

Sri Lanka

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