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Sri Lankan

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English

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Etymology

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From Sri Lanka +‎ -an.

Noun

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Sri Lankan (plural Sri Lankans)

  1. A person from Sri Lanka or of Sri Lankan descent.
    • 2024 September 22, Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly, “Sri Lankans elect Marxist-leaning Dissanayake as president to fix economy”, in Reuters[1]:
      Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to fight corruption and bolster a fragile economic recovery following the South Asian nation's worst financial crisis in decades.

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Adjective

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Sri Lankan (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Sri Lanka or to the Sri Lankan people.
    • 2022 February 9, Karen McVeigh, “‘Oil spills of our time’: experts sound alarm about plastic lost in cargo ship disasters ​”, in The Guardian[2], Guardian Media Group, retrieved 2022-02-11, Seascape: the state of our oceans:
      Researchers analysed samples of nurdles and burnt lumps of plastic from four Sri Lankan beaches for heavy metals and various chemicals, including benzotriazole UV-stabilisers, which are used to prevent discoloration in plastics, bisphenols and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

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Finnish

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Proper noun

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Sri Lankan

  1. genitive singular of Sri Lanka

Maltese

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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Sri Lankan (feminine singular Sri Lankana, plural Sri Lankani)

  1. Sri Lankan (of, from or relating to Sri Lanka)

Noun

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Sri Lankan m (plural Sri Lankani, feminine Sri Lankana)

  1. Sri Lankan (native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka) (usually male)