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grit meaning in Sinhala

කප්පි kappi

/ɡɹɪt/

grit in Sinhala: කප්පි (kappi). In English, grit means a collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.

Sinhala words for grit

grit
කප්පි kappi

English meaning of grit

  1. noun A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
  2. noun Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
  3. noun Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
  4. noun A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.

Full definition of grit

grit in a sentence

  • The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
  • These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
  • I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.

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Questions about grit in Sinhala

What is the meaning of grit in Sinhala?
Grit in Sinhala is කප්පි (kappi).
grit යන්නෙහි සිංහල තේරුම කුමක්ද?
Grit: කප්පි (kappi).
What does grit mean in English?
Grit means a collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.

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Sinhala words from Wiktionary's Sinhala entries whose English meaning is “grit”: කප්පි. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: grit (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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