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Cooray

Cooray proper noun: a surname from Sinhalese.

Proper noun

Cooray

  1. A surname from Sinhalese.
    • It wasn’t — at least, not if Ms. Cooray was in Melbourne in 2009, when the city hit its current record of 46.2 degrees Celsius.2019 January 26, James Tarabay, “Across Australia, Yet Another Scorching Summer”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2019

Origin of Cooray

Borrowed from Sinhalese කුරේ (kurē).

Questions about Cooray

What does Cooray mean?
Cooray means a surname from Sinhalese.
What part of speech is Cooray?
Cooray is a proper noun.

Words near Cooray in the dictionary

  1. Coopworth
  2. Coopworths
  3. Coor
  4. Coorabell
  5. Cooranbong
  6. Cooray
  7. coorbit
  8. coorbit theory
  9. coorbital
  10. coorbitals
  11. coorbits

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