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  2. Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Madura English–Sinhala Dictionary (Sinhala: මධුර ඉංග්‍රීසි–සිංහල ශබ්දකෝෂය) is a free electronic dictionary service developed by Madura Kulatunga.

  3. List of Sinhala words of English origin - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Sinhala idioms and proverbs - Wikipedia

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    Sinhala idioms (Sinhala: රූඩි, rūḍi) and colloquial expressions that are widely used to communicate figuratively, as with any other developed language. This page also contains a list of old and popular Sinhala proverbs , which are known as prastā piruḷu ( ප්‍රස්තා පිරුළු ) in Sinhala.

  5. List of Sinhala words of Tamil origin - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Sinhala slang - Wikipedia

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    The term "Rahath Unā"(රහත් උනා) can also be treated as blasphemy, due to the fact that the religious term "attaining Arahat (enlightened) state" is used here to mean something non-religious and mundane. The slang "'Rahath Unā'" usually refers to the situation where someone sneaks out from somewhere, without telling anyone.

  7. Sinhala script - Wikipedia

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    Nirmala UI is the default Sinhala font in Windows 10. The latest versions of Windows 10 have added support for Sinhala Archaic Numbers that were not supported by default in previous versions. For macOS , Apple Inc. has provided Sinhala font support for versions of macOS that are Catalina and above through Unicode integration.

  8. List of Sinhala words of Portuguese origin - Wikipedia

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    Exception from the standard are the romanization of Sinhala long "ä" ([æː]) as "ää", and the non-marking of prenasalized stops. Sinhala words of Portuguese origin came about during the period of Portuguese colonial rule in Sri Lanka between 1505–1658. This period saw rapid absorption of many Portuguese words into the local language ...

  9. Talk:List of Sinhala words of Tamil origin - Wikipedia

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    Sinhala - Tamil - English appochchi - appaachchi - father ambala - ambalam - inn, resthouse araliya - alari - Frangipani ali - aliyan - Elephant awari - avuri - Indigo angaana - angaadi - Stall aadayam - aadhayam -income aeni - aani - nail (lynch-pin) aembaeTTa - ambattan - barber ichcha - ichchai - flattery iyam - idam - place ilakka - ilakku ...