Sri Lankan
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sri Lankan (plural Sri Lankans)
- 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
[edit]a person from Sri Lanka or of Sri Lankan descent
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Adjective
[edit]Sri Lankan (not comparable)
- 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]of, from, or pertaining to Sri Lanka or to the Sri Lankan people
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Finnish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Sri Lankan
Maltese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sri Lankan (feminine singular Sri Lankana, plural Sri Lankani)
- Sri Lankan (of, from or relating to Sri Lanka)
Noun
[edit]Sri Lankan m (plural Sri Lankani, feminine Sri Lankana)
- Sri Lankan (native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka) (usually male)
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