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Cinghal

Cinghal is the archaic spelling of Sinhala.

Meaning of Sinhala

Proper noun

Sinhala

  1. (obsolete) The island of Sri Lanka.
  2. The kingdom in the island of Sri Lanka mentioned in the Mahabharata.

See all 3 meanings of Sinhala

Questions about Cinghal

What is Cinghal the archaic spelling of?
Cinghal is the archaic spelling of Sinhala.

Words near Cinghal in the dictionary

  1. Ciney
  2. cinflumide
  3. Cing
  4. Cingalese
  5. Cingcyuan
  6. Cinghal
  7. Cinghalese
  8. cingle
  9. cingles
  10. cingula
  11. cingular

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cinghal (page history and authors); Sinhala (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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