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abugida meaning in Sinhala

අබුගිඩා

UK/ˌɑː.buˈɡiː.də/

abugida in Sinhala: අබුගිඩා. In English, abugida means a kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, such that symbols for syllables not including the default vowel are generated by adding a common notation to indicate the vowel that it does include.

Sinhala words for abugida

අබුගිඩා

English meaning of abugida

  1. noun A kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, such that symbols for syllables not including the default vowel are generated by adding a common notation to indicate the vowel that it does include.
  2. noun A kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, typically such that symbols for different syllables are generated by adding, altering or removing the vowel portion, often by applying a diacritic to a stable consonant symbol.

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Questions about abugida in Sinhala

What is the meaning of abugida in Sinhala?
Abugida in Sinhala is අබුගිඩා.
abugida යන්නෙහි සිංහල තේරුම කුමක්ද?
Abugida: අබුගිඩා.
What does abugida mean in English?
Abugida means a kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, such that symbols for syllables not including the default vowel are generated by adding a common notation to indicate the vowel that it does include.

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Sinhala words from Sinhala Wiktionary: abugida (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: abugida (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sinhala words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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