Sri Lanka

See also: Srí Lanka, Šrilanka, Šri Lanka, Šrí Lanka, and Şri-Lanka

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sinhalese ශ්‍රී ලංකාව (śrī laṁkāwa), from Sanskrit श्री लङ्का (śrī laṅkā, literally “holy Lanka”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɹiˈlɑːŋkə/, /sɹiˈlɑːŋkə/, /sɹiˈlæŋkə/

• Audio (US)

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It should be noted that the Sanskrit honorific that the "Sri" comes from (श्री, ISO: Śrī) is pronounced [ɕriː], and while this pronunciation is preserved in Sinhalese, the closest English phoneme that best fits [ɕ] is /ʃ/, resulting in the approximation /ʃɹ/. /sɹ/ in English results from ignoring or dropping the diacritic on ⟨s⟩ in the romanization ⟨śrī⟩. In Sinhalese, [sriː] may occur as an acceptable variant pronunciation only in quick, uneducated speech, because [ɕ] is an uncommon phoneme in Sinhalese and is replaced with [s] in certain dialects.

Proper noun

Sri Lanka

2. Country in South Asia. Official name: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
3. The island comprising most of this country.

Usage notes

“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.

Synonyms

• Ceylon (no longer used)
• Serendib (archaic)
• Serendip (archaic)

Derived terms

• Sri Lankan

Translations

a country in South Asia

• Afrikaans: Sri Lanka
• Albanian: Sri Lanka f
• Amharic: ሽሪ ላንካ (šəri lanka)
• Arabic: سِرِيلَانْكَا‎ f (sirīlānkā), سَرَنْدِيب‎ (sarandīb) (archaic)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܣܝܪܢܕܝܒ‎ (sīrandīb)

• Armenian: Շրի Լանկա (Šri Lanka)
• Assamese: শ্ৰীলংকা (sriloṅka)
• Asturian: Sri Lanka (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Şri-Lanka (az)
• Belarusian: Шры-Ланка́ f (Šry-Lanká)
• Bengali: শ্রীলঙ্কা (bn) (śrilôṅka)
• Breton: Sri Lanka
• Bulgarian: Шри Ла́нка (bg) (Šri Lánka)
• Burmese: သီရိလင်္ကာ (my) (siri.langka), သီဟိုဠ် (sihuil)
• Catalan: Sri Lanka (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 斯里蘭卡, 斯里兰卡 (si¹ lei⁵ laan⁴ kaa¹)

  Mandarin: 斯里蘭卡 (zh), 斯里兰卡 (zh) (Sīlǐlánkǎ)

• Czech: Srí Lanka (cs) f
• Danish: Sri Lanka
• Dhivehi: އޮޅުދޫކަރަ‎ (oḷudūkara)
• Dutch: Sri Lanka (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཤྲཱྀ་ལངཀ
• Esperanto: Lanko, Sri-Lanko, Srilanko (eo)
• Estonian: Sri Lanka (et)
• Faroese: Sri Lanka n
• Finnish: Sri Lanka (fi)
• French: Sri Lanka (fr)
• Galician: Sri Lanka (gl)
• Georgian: შრი-ლანკა (šri-lanḳa)
• German: Sri Lanka (de)
• Greek: Σρι Λάνκα (el) f (Sri Lánka)
• Gujarati: શ્રીલંકા (śrīlaṅkā)
• Hausa: Siri Lanka
• Hebrew: סְרִי לַנְקָה‎ (he) f (sri lanka)
• Hindi: श्रीलंका (hi) m (śrīlaṅkā), सिंहल (hi) m (sĩhal), श्रीलङ्का (hi) m (śrīlaṅkā), सिंघल (hi) m (siṅghal)
• Hungarian: Srí Lanka (hu)
• Icelandic: Sri Lanka
• Interlingua: Sri Lanka
• Inuktitut: ᔅᕇ ᓛᓐᑲ (srii laanka)
• Irish: Srí Lanca m
• Italian: Sri Lanka (it) m
• Japanese: スリランカ (ja) (Suriranka)
• Kalenjin: Srilanka
• Kamba: Srilanka
• Kannada: ಶ್ರೀಲಂಕಾ (kn) (śrīlaṅkā)
• Kazakh: Шри-Ланка (Şrï-Lanka)
• Khmer: ស្រីលង្កា (km) (srəy lɑngkaa)
• Kikuyu: Srilanka
• Korean: 스리랑카 (ko) (Seurirangka)
• Kyrgyz: Шри-Ланка (Şri-Lanqa)
• Lao: ສີລັງກາ (lo) (sī lang kā)
• Latin: Taprobane
• Latvian: Šrilanka f
• Lithuanian: Šri Lanka (lt) f

• Luhya: Srilanka
• Luo: Srilanka
• Lü: ᦟᧂᦂᦱ (langk̇aa)
• Macedonian: Шри Ланка (mk) f (Šri Lanka)
• Malayalam: ശ്രീലങ്ക (śrīlaṅka)
• Maltese: Sri Lanka (mt)
• Maori: Hīraka
• Marathi: श्रीलंका (śrīlaṅkā)
• Meru: Srilanka, Srilanka
• Mongolian: Шри-Ланка (Shri-Lanka)
• Navajo: Swii Lankʼa
• Norman: Sri Lanka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sri Lanka (no)

  Nynorsk: Sri Lanka (nn)

• Pashto: سریلانکا‎
• Persian: سری‌لانکا‎ (seri-lânkâ), سرندیپ‎ (sarandip) (archaic)
• Polish: Sri Lanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: Sri Lanka (pt)
• Punjabi: ਸ੍ਰੀ ਲੰਕਾ (srī laṅkā)
• Romanian: Sri Lanca
• Russian: Шри-Ла́нка (ru) f (Šri-Lánka), Шри-Ланка́ (ru) f (Šri-Lanká)
• Sanskrit: श्रीलङ्का (śrīlaṅkā)
• Santali: ᱥᱨᱤᱞᱚᱝᱠᱟ (srilôṅka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Шри Ланка f

  Roman: Šri Lanka (sh) f

• Shan: ^{(please verify)} သီႇရီႉလင်ႇၵႃႇ (sìi rḭ̂i làng kàa), သီႇႁူဝ်ႇ (shn) (sìi hò), ႀီႇႁူဝ်ႇ (xìi hò)
• Sindhi: سري لنڪا‎, سريلنڪا‎
• Sinhalese: ශ්‍රී ලංකාව (si) (śrī laṁkāwa), ශ්‍රී ලංකා (śrī laṁkā)
• Slovak: Srí Lanka f
• Slovene: Šri Lanka f
• Spanish: Sri Lanka (es)
• Swahili: Sirilanka (sw)
• Swedish: Sri Lanka (sv)
• Tagalog: Sri Langka
• Tajik: Шри-Ланка (tg) (Šri-Lanka)
• Tamil: இலங்கை (ta) (ilaṅkai), ஈழம் (ta) (īḻam) (archaic, political)
• Tatar: Шри-Ланка (Şri-Lanka)
• Telugu: శ్రీలంక (te) (śrīlaṅka)
• Thai: ศรีลังกา (th) (sǐi-lang-gaa)
• Tibetan: སེང་ག་གླིང (seng ga gling)
• Turkish: Sri Lanka (tr)
• Turkmen: Şri-Lanka
• Ukrainian: Шрі-Ланка́ (uk) f (Šri-Lanká)
• Urdu: سری لنکا‎ m (srī lankā)
• Uyghur: سرىلانكا‎ (srilanka)
• Uzbek: Shri-Lanka (uz)
• Vietnamese: Xri Lan-ca
• Yiddish: סרי לאַנקאַ‎ (sri lanka)
• Yoruba: Siri Láńkà
• Zhuang: Swhlijlanzgaj

See also

• Appendix:Countries and territories of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
• Names of Sri Lanka

Anagrams

• alkarsin

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Asturian

Proper noun

Sri Lanka f

1. Sri Lanka (a country in South Asia)

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Sri Lanka

1. Sri Lanka (a country in Asia)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Sri Lanka

1. Sri Lanka (a country in Asia)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sri Lanka n

1. Sri Lanka (an island and a country)

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Faroese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɹiː laʰŋ̊ka/

Proper noun

Sri Lanka n

1. Sri Lanka

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Finnish

Proper noun

Sri Lanka

1. Sri Lanka

   Sri Lankan demokraattinen sosialistinen tasavalta

   Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

Declension

Inflection of Sri Lanka (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		Sri Lanka	—
genitive		Sri Lankan	—
partitive		Sri Lankaa	—
illative		Sri Lankaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Sri Lanka	—
accusative	nom.	Sri Lanka	—
	gen.	Sri Lankan
genitive		Sri Lankan	—
partitive		Sri Lankaa	—
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		—	—

Possessive forms of Sri Lanka (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Sri Lankani	Sri Lankamme
2nd person	Sri Lankasi	Sri Lankanne
3rd person	Sri Lankansa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʁi lɑ̃.ka/

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Proper noun

Sri Lanka m

1. Sri Lanka (a country in Asia)

Derived terms

• Srilankais
• srilankais

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Sri Lanka n (proper noun, genitive Sri Lankas or (optionally with an article) Sri Lanka)

1. Sri Lanka (an island and country in South Asia)

Declension

Declension of Sri Lanka [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Sri Lanka
genitive	des	Sri Lankas, Sri Lanka1
dative	dem	Sri Lanka
accusative	das	Sri Lanka

¹Optionally with an article.

Derived terms

• Srilanker, Sri-Lanker, Sri Lanker
• srilankisch, sri-lankisch

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Sanskrit श्री लङ्का (śrī laṅkā, literally “holy island”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsri ˈlaŋka]

Proper noun

Sri Lanka

1. Sri Lanka

See also

• (countries of Asia) negara-negara di Asia; Afganistan, Arab Saudi, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Filipina, India, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Israel, Jepang, Kamboja, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Korea Selatan, Korea Utara, Kuwait, Laos, Libanon, Maladewa, Malaysia, Mesir, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Rusia, Singapura, Siprus, Sri Lanka, Suriah, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor Leste, Tiongkok, Turki, Turkmenistan, Uni Emirat Arab, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yaman, Yordania

Further reading

• “Sri Lanka” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Proper noun

Sri Lanka m

1. Sri Lanka

See also

• Ceylon
• cingalese

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Sri Lanka

1. Sri Lanka

Related terms

• srilanker
• srilankisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Sri Lanka

1. Sri Lanka

Related terms

• srilankar
• srilankisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sri ˈlaŋ.ka/

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• Rhymes: -aŋka

Proper noun

Sri Lanka f

1. Sri Lanka

Declension

Declension of Sri Lanka

	singular
nominative	Sri Lanka
genitive	Sri Lanki
dative	Sri Lance
accusative	Sri Lankę
instrumental	Sri Lanką
locative	Sri Lance
vocative	Sri Lanko

Derived terms

nouns

• Lankijczyk
• Lankijka

 

adjective

• lankijski

 

Further reading

• Sri Lanka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Sri Lanka in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Sri Lanca
• Seri Lanca

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsɾi ˈlɐ̃.ka/, /siˈɾi ˈlɐ̃.ka/

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /sɨˈɾi ˈlɐ̃.kɐ/, [sɨˈɾi ˈlɐ̃.kɐ]

Proper noun

Sri Lanka m

1. Sri Lanka (a country and island in South Asia)

   Synonym: (former name) Ceilão

Derived terms

• srilanquês

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Romanian

Proper noun

Sri Lanka n

1. Sri Lanka

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): /esriˈlanka/, [ez.riˈlãŋ.ka]

Proper noun

Sri Lanka f

1. Sri Lanka

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Swedish

Proper noun

Sri Lanka n (genitive Sri Lankas)

1. Sri Lanka

Anagrams

• kilarnas, likarnas, siklarna