Ceylon
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese Ceilão, from Old French Seilan (Marco Polo), from Persian سیلان (saylān), ultimately from Pali sīhaḷa, from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala). Doublet of Sinhala.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /sɪˈlɒn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /seɪˈlɑn/, /siˈlɑn/
- Rhymes: (UK) -ɒn, (US) -ɑn
Proper noun
[edit]Ceylon
- (archaic, historical) Sri Lanka [prior to 1972].
- 2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:
- Brush supplied shunters to industrial clients, but the first significant main line order came from the Ceylon Government Railway in 1950 for 25 diesel-electrics.
- (very rare) A male given name transferred from the place name.
- (computer languages) An object-oriented, strongly statically typed programming language with an emphasis on immutability.
Usage notes
[edit]- The country name Ceylon is generally considered archaic, having been replaced by Sri Lanka, but it is still used in some contexts; see usage notes for Sri Lanka.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]old name for Sri Lanka — see also Sri Lanka
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Noun
[edit]Ceylon (countable and uncountable, plural Ceylons)
See also
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[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English Ceylon, from Portuguese Ceilão.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ceylon
- (historical) Ceylon (former name of the island and state of Sri Lanka)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Ceylon (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Ceylon | — | |
genitive | Ceylonin | — | |
partitive | Ceylonia | — | |
illative | Ceyloniin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Ceylon | — | |
accusative | nom. | Ceylon | — |
gen. | Ceylonin | ||
genitive | Ceylonin | — | |
partitive | Ceylonia | — | |
inessive | Ceylonissa | — | |
elative | Ceylonista | — | |
illative | Ceyloniin | — | |
adessive | Ceylonilla | — | |
ablative | Ceylonilta | — | |
allative | Ceylonille | — | |
essive | Ceylonina | — | |
translative | Ceyloniksi | — | |
abessive | Ceylonitta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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