Sri Lankan

English

Etymology

From Sri Lanka +‎ -an.

Noun

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.

Translations

a person from Sri Lanka or of Sri Lankan descent

• Catalan: singalès (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斯里蘭卡人 (sīlǐlánkǎrén)

• Czech: Srílančan (cs) m
• Dutch: Sri Lankaan (nl) m, Sri Lankaanse (nl) f
• Esperanto: srilankano (man or woman), srilankanino (woman)
• Finnish: srilankalainen (fi)
• French: Sri-Lankais (fr) m, Sri-Lankaise (fr) f
• Galician: srilankés m
• German: Sri-Lanker (de) m, Sri-Lankerin (de) f
• Greek: Σριλανκέζος (el) m (Srilankézos), Σριλανκέζα (el) f (Srilankéza)
• Japanese: スリランカ人 (ja) (surirankajin)
• Korean: 스리랑카인 (seurirangkain)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: srilanker m

  Nynorsk: srilankar (nn) m

• Polish: Lankijczyk (pl) m, Lankijka (pl) f
• Portuguese: sri-lankês (pt) m
• Romanian: srilankez m, srilankeză f
• Russian: шриланки́ец m (šrilankíjec), шриланки́йка f (šrilankíjka), ланки́ец (ru) m (lankíjec), ланки́йка (ru) f (lankíjka)
• Spanish: esrilanqués m
• Swedish: lankes (sv) c, srilankes (sv) c
• Turkish: Sri Lankalı (tr)

Adjective

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).

Derived terms

• Sri Lankan English

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to Sri Lanka or to the Sri Lankan people

• Catalan: singalès (ca)
• Czech: srílanský (cs)
• Dutch: Sri Lankaans (nl)
• Finnish: srilankalainen (fi)
• French: sri-lankais (fr)
• Galician: srilankés
• German: sri-lankisch (de)
• Icelandic: srílanskur
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: srilankisk

  Nynorsk: srilankisk (nn)

• Polish: lankijski (pl)
• Portuguese: srilanquês (pt)
• Romanian: srilankez
• Russian: шриланки́йский (šrilankíjskij), шри-ланки́йский (ru) (šri-lankíjskij), ланки́йский (ru) (lankíjskij)
• Spanish: esrilanqués
• Swedish: srilankesisk, lankesisk (sv)

Finnish

Proper noun

Sri Lankan

1. genitive singular of Sri Lanka

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /srɪ.lanˈkaːn/

Adjective

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

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

Noun

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

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