Sinhalese
of or relating to Sri Lanka, its native people, or their language.
a member of the Sinhalese people.
an Indic language that is the language of the majority of the population of Sri Lanka, including Colombo.
- Also Singhalese .
Words Nearby Sinhalese
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How to use Sinhalese in a sentence
Prabhakaran had come to personify the movement, and his end, so wretched, became the emblem of Tamil defeat and Sinhalese triumph.
Mahinda Rajapaksa and Sri Lanka’s Reign of Terror | Kapil Komireddi | November 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“Our country is a Sinhalese one and we are its unofficial police,” one monk announced.
What Intolerant Buddhist Monks Are Doing to Sri Lanka | Kapil Komireddi | April 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are many Sinhalese Buddhists who are mortified by the turn their country has taken under the Rajapaksas.
What Intolerant Buddhist Monks Are Doing to Sri Lanka | Kapil Komireddi | April 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Hindus stood round the tiger, and the Sinhalese traced mysterious signs on its forehead.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna BlavatskyParker notes that in another Sinhalese form of this story both persons institute law-suits.
Filipino Popular Tales | Dean S. Fansler
The Sinhalese introduced from the mainland a comparatively high type of civilization, notably agriculture.
Some of these are on a small scale; but altogether several thousands of Sinhalese find a precarious existence in digging for gems.
For thirty years from this date the Sinhalese kings of Ceylon were tributary to China.
British Dictionary definitions for Sinhalese
Singhalese or Sinhala
/ (ˌsɪnhəˈliːz) /
plural -leses or -lese a member of a people living chiefly in Sri Lanka, where they constitute the majority of the population
the language of this people, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family: the official language of Sri Lanka. It is written in a script of Indian origin
of or relating to this people or their language
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