Sri Lanka

See also: Šrilanka, Šri Lanka, and Srí Lanka

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Sri Lanka

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

Usage notes

Wikipedia

“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)

Translations

a country in South Asia

• Afrikaans: Sri Lanka
• Arabic: سريلانكا f (sriilaankaa)
• Armenian: Շրի Լանկա (Šri Lanka)
• Asturian: Sri Lanka (ast)
• Azeri: Şri-Lanka
• Belarusian: Шры-Ланка f (Šry-Lanká)
• Bengali: শ্রীলঙ্কা (shrilôngka)
• Breton: Sri Lanka
• Bulgarian: Шри Ланка (bg) (Šri-Lánka)
• Burmese: သီရိလင်္ကာနိုင်ငံ (thiri.linka naingngan)
• Catalan: Sri Lanka (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: Srí Lanka (cs) f
• Danish: Sri Lanka
• Dutch: Sri Lanka (nl)
• Dzongkha: ཤྲཱྀ་ལངཀ
• Esperanto: Lanko, Sri-Lanko, Srilanko
• Faroese: Sri Lanka n
• Finnish: Sri Lanka (fi)
• French: Sri Lanka (fr)
• Georgian: შრი-ლანკა (šri-lanka)
• German: Sri Lanka (de)
• Greek: Σρι Λάνκα (el) f (Sri Lánka)
• Gujarati: શ્રીલંકા (śrīlaṅkā)
• Hebrew: סרי לנקה (he)
• Hindi: श्रीलंका (hi) m (śrīlaṅkā)
• Hungarian: Srí Lanka (hu)
• Icelandic: Sri Lanka
• Interlingua: Sri Lanka
• Inuktitut: ᔅᕇ ᓛᓐᑲ (Srii Laanka)
• Italian: Sri Lanka (it)
• Japanese: スリランカ (ja) (Suriranka)
• Jèrriais: Sri Lanka
• Kalenjin: Srilanka
• Kamba: Srilanka
• Kannada: ಶ್ರೀಲಂಕಾ (kn) (śrīlaṅkā)
• Kazakh: Шри-Ланка (Şrï-Lanka)
• Khmer: ស្រីលង្កា (srəy langkaa)

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

  Cyrillic: Шри Ланка f

  Roman: Šri Lanka f

• Sinhalese: ශ්‍රී ලංකාව (si) (ś‍rī laṁkāva), 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 Lanka
• Tajik: Шри-Ланка (Šri-Lanka)
• Tamil: இலங்கை (ta) (ilaṅkai)
• Tatar: Шри-Ланка (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) f (Šri-Lanká)
• Urdu: سری لنکا m (srī lankā)
• Uzbek: Shri-Lanka (uz)
• Vietnamese: Sri Lanka

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Sri Lanka
• Countries of the world
• Names of Sri Lanka

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Asturian

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Proper noun

Sri Lanka f

1. Sri Lanka (a country in South Asia)

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sri Lanka ?

1. Sri Lanka (an island and a country)

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Faroese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɹiː laʰŋ̊ka/

Proper noun

Sri Lanka n

1. Sri Lanka

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Sri Lanka

1. Sri Lanka

Declension

Declension of Sri Lanka (Kotus type 9/kala)

		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		—	—

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German

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Proper noun

Sri Lanka n (genitive Sri Lankas)

1. Sri Lanka

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Italian

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Proper noun

Sri Lanka m

1. Sri Lanka

See also

• Ceylon
• cingalese

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Sri Lanka

1. Sri Lanka

Related terms

• srilanker
• srilankisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Sri Lanka f

1. Sri Lanka

Declension

    declension of Sri Lanka

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

Derived terms

• Lankijczyk m, Lankijka f
• adjective: lankijski

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Sri Lanka m

1. Sri Lanka (a country in South Asia)

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Spanish

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Proper noun

Sri Lanka ?

1. Sri Lanka