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Giya loola maha ekaa lu (ගිය ලූලා මහා එකා ලු) The eel that escaped your hands is the biggest one. Describes the loss of a big opportunity. Gahata poththa wagei (ගහට පොත්ත වගෙයි ) As close to each other as the bark is to the tree trunk. Describes really close friends/people.
Exception from the standard are the romanization of Sinhala long "ä" ([æː]) as "ää", and the non-marking of prenasalized stops. Sinhala words of English origin mainly came about during the period of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka. This period saw absorption of several English words into the local language brought about by the ...
Etymology. Sinhala ( Siṃhala) is a Sanskrit term; the corresponding Middle Indo-Aryan ( Eḷu) word is Sīhala . The name is a derivative of siṃha, the Sanskrit word for 'lion'. [12] The name is sometimes glossed as 'abode of lions', and attributed to a supposed former abundance of lions on the island.
Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary ( Sinhala: මධුර ඉංග්රීසි–සිංහල ශබ්දකෝෂය) is a free electronic dictionary service developed by Madura Kulatunga. [1] [2] It is available as computer software, an online website and an android app. [3] [4] The dictionary contains over 230,000 definitions ...
The Official Language Act (No. 33 of 1956), commonly referred to as the Sinhala Only Act, was an act passed in the Parliament of Ceylon in 1956. [1] The act replaced English with Sinhala as the sole official language of Ceylon, with the exclusion of Tamil from the act. At the time, Sinhala (also known as Sinhalese) was the language of Ceylon's ...
The Sinhalese people ( Sinhala: සිංහල ජනතාව, romanized: Sinhala Janathāva ), also known as the Sinhalese or Sinhala people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group native to the island of Sri Lanka. [15] [16] They are the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, constituting about 75% of the Sri Lankan population and number more ...
Tamil loanwords in Sinhala can appear in the same form as the original word (e.g. akkā), but this is quite rare.Usually, a word has undergone some kind of modification to fit into the Sinhala phonological (e.g. paḻi becomes paḷi(ya) because the sound of /ḻ/, [], does not exist in the Sinhala phoneme inventory) or morphological system (e.g. ilakkam becomes ilakkama because Sinhala ...
These are the main ways Dutch words are incorporated into the Sinhala lexicon with different endings: With an /aya/ or /uva/ added to Dutch words ending in consonants (e.g. raam> rāmuva). With a /ya/ added to words ending in /a/ or /e/ or /i/ (e.g. bakje> bakkiya). With the animate ending /yā/ added to Dutch words signifying living beings or ...