Fromसिंह(siṃha,“lion”) +-ल(-la), literally“lionlike”.
सिंहल• (siṃhala)stem, m orn
- Sri Lanka (anisland ofSouth Asia)
- a malegiven name
- (in theplural)Sri Lankans
- tin
- brass (more correctlyसिंहलक(siṃhalaka))
- bark,rind
- Cassia bark (more correctlyसैंहल(saiṃhala))
- Ashokan Prakrit:*𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀳𑀮(*siṃhala)
- Pali:sīhaḷa,sīhala
- → Burmese:သီဟိုဠ်(sihuil)
- → Classical Persian:سیلان(saylān)
- → Armenian:սեյլան(seylan,“garnet”),սելյան(selyan),սելան(selan),սիլան(silan),սէյլան(sēylan),սէլեան(sēlean),սէլան(sēlan) —traditional orthography
- → Georgian:სეილანი(seilani)
- → Old French:Seilan
- → Ottoman Turkish:سیلان(Seylan,“Ceylon”),سیلان تاشی(Seylan taşı,“garnet”)
- → Tatar:сәйлән(säylän)
- → Malay:Sailan,selan
- → Sinhalese:සිංහල(siṁhala)
- Monier Williams (1899), “सिंहल”, inA Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At theClarendon Press,→OCLC, page1213.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “siṁhala”, inA Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press,page772