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Sri Lankan

Sri Lankan noun: a person from Sri Lanka or of Sri Lankan descent.

Noun

Sri Lankan (plural Sri Lankans)

  1. A person from Sri Lanka or of Sri Lankan descent.
    • Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to fight corruption and bolster a fragile economic recovery following the South Asian nation's worst financial crisis in decades.2024 September 22, Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly, “Sri Lankans elect Marxist-leaning Dissanayake as president to fix economy”, in Reuters

Adjective

Sri Lankan (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Sri Lanka or to the Sri Lankan people.
    • Researchers analysed samples of nurdles and burnt lumps of plastic from four Sri Lankan beaches for heavy metals and various chemicals, including benzotriazole UV-stabilisers, which are used to prevent discoloration in plastics, bisphenols and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).2022 February 9, Karen McVeigh, “‘Oil spills of our time’: experts sound alarm about plastic lost in cargo ship disasters”, in The Guardian, Guardian Media Group, retrieved 11 Feb 2022, Seascape: the...

Sri Lankan meaning in Hindi, Bengali and Indonesian

Sri Lankan in Hindi

a person from Sri Lanka or of Sri Lankan descent
श्रीलंकाई śrīlaṅkāī
of, from, or pertaining to Sri Lanka or to the Sri Lankan people
श्रीलंकाई śrīlaṅkāī

Sri Lankan in Bengali

শ্রীলঙ্কান

Sri Lankan in Indonesian

of, from, or pertaining to Sri Lanka or to the Sri Lankan people
Sri Lanka

Forms of Sri Lankan

pluralSri Lankans

Origin of Sri Lankan

From Sri Lanka + -an.

Words formed from Sri Lankan

Questions about Sri Lankan

What does Sri Lankan mean?
Sri Lankan means a person from Sri Lanka or of Sri Lankan descent.
What is Sri Lankan in Hindi?
Sri Lankan in Hindi is श्रीलंकाई (śrīlaṅkāī). See Sri Lankan meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Sri Lankan?
Sri Lankan can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of Sri Lankan?
The plural of Sri Lankan is Sri Lankans.

Words near Sri Lankan in the dictionary

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  2. Sri Lanka bush warblers
  3. Sri Lanka hill myna
  4. Sri Lanka hill mynas
  5. Sri Lanka Standard Time
  6. Sri Lankan
  7. Sri Lankan English
  8. Sri Lankan junglefowl
  9. Sri Lankan junglefowls
  10. Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sri Lankan (page history and authors); Sri Lankan (Bengali 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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