Sinhalese
/sɪnhəˈliːz/
Sinhalese adjective: of or pertaining to the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka, their Indo-Aryan language, or their culture.
Adjective
Sinhalese (comparative more Sinhalese, superlative most Sinhalese)
- Of or pertaining to the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka, their Indo-Aryan language, or their culture.
Noun
Sinhalese (countable and uncountable, plural Sinhalese)
- A Sinhalese person: a member of the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka.
- The Indo-Aryan language of the Sinhalese people.
Sinhalese meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Sinhalese in Hindi
- of or pertaining to Sri Lanka
- सिंहली sĩhlī
- Sinhalese person
- सिंहली sĩhlī
- the language
- सिंहली भाषा sĩhlī bhāṣā, सिंहली sĩhlī, सिंहाली sĩhālī
Sinhalese in Tamil
- Sinhalese person
- சிங்களர் ciṅkaḷar
- the language
- சிங்களம் ciṅkaḷam
Sinhalese in Marathi
- Sinhalese person
- सिंहली siuhlī
- the language
- सिंहली siuhlī
Sinhalese in Urdu
- the language
- سنگھالی
More languagesFewer languages
- Sinhalese in Telugu
- సింహళీయ siṁhaḷīya
- Sinhalese in Kannada
- ಸಿಂಹಳಿ
- Sinhalese in Sinhala
- ශ්රී ලාංකීය śrī lāṁkīya, සිංහල siṁhala, සිංහලයා siṁhalayā, හෙළයා heḷayā
- Sinhalese in Arabic
- سِنْهَالِيّ sinhāliyy, لُغَة سِنْهَالِيَّة luḡa sinhāliyya
- Sinhalese in Malay
- Sinhala
- Sinhalese in Persian
- زبان سینهالی
- Sinhalese in Thai
- ภาษาสิงหล paa-săa sĭng-hŏn
Synonyms of Sinhalese
Forms of Sinhalese
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more Sinhalese |
| superlative | most Sinhalese |
| alternative form | Singalese |
| alternative form | Singhalese |
| alternative form | Cinghalese |
| alternative form | Cingalese |
| Noun | |
| plural | Sinhalese |
Origin of Sinhalese
From Sinhala + -ese.
Words that rhyme with Sinhalese
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
- agrees
Questions about Sinhalese
- What does Sinhalese mean?
- Sinhalese means of or pertaining to the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka, their Indo-Aryan language, or their culture.
- What is Sinhalese in Hindi?
- Sinhalese in Hindi is सिंहली (sĩhlī), सिंहली भाषा (sĩhlī bhāṣā), सिंहाली (sĩhālī). See Sinhalese meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Sinhalese?
- Sinhalese can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Sinhalese?
- Sinhalese is pronounced /sɪnhəˈliːz/.
Words near Sinhalese in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Sinhalese (page history and authors); Sinhalese (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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