Sri Lankan

English Etymology en :af Sri Lanka -an + 1 Pronunciation en en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Sri Lankan.wav Southern England Noun 1 A person from Sri Lanka or of Sri Lankan descent. en Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly Sri Lankans elect Marxist-leaning Dissanayake as president to fix economy w:Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lankas-marxist-leaning-dissanayake-early-lead-become-president-2024-09-21/ 2024-09-22 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20241102085539/https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lankas-marxist-leaning-dissanayake-early-lead-become-president-2024-09-21/ 2 November 2024 Translations a person from Sri Lanka or of Sri Lankan descent Ceylonese Asturian: ast ceilandés m, ast ceilandesa f Catalan: ca singalès m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 斯里蘭卡人 sīlǐlánkǎrén Czech: cs Srílančan m Dutch: nl Sri Lankaan m, nl Sri Lankaanse f Esperanto: eo srilankano man or woman, eo srilankanino woman Finnish: fi srilankalainen French: fr Sri-Lankais m, fr Sri-Lankaise f Galician: gl srilankés m German: de Sri-Lanker m, de Sri-Lankerin f Greek: el Σριλανκέζος m, el Σριλανκέζα f Hindi: hi श्रीलंकाई m f Japanese: ja スリランカ人 surirankajin Korean: ko 스리랑카인, ko 스리랑카 사람 Norwegian: Bokmål: nb srilanker m Nynorsk: nn srilankar m Polish: pl Lankijczyk m, pl Lankijka f Portuguese: pt sri-lankês m Romanian: ro srilankez m, ro srilankeză f Russian: ru шриланки́ец m, ru шриланки́йка f, ru ланки́ец m, ru ланки́йка f Spanish: es esrilanqués m Swedish: sv lankes c, sv srilankes c Turkish: tr Sri Lankalı Adjective - 1 Of, from, or pertaining to Sri Lanka or to the Sri Lankan people. ‘Oil spills of our time’: experts sound alarm about plastic lost in cargo ship disasters 2022-02-11 2022-02-09 Karen McVeigh https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/09/cargo-ship-disasters-are-oil-spills-of-our-time-because-of-health-risk-from-plastic Seascape: the state of our oceans 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). https://web.archive.org/web/20261017210848/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/09/cargo-ship-disasters-are-oil-spills-of-our-time-because-of-health-risk-from-plastic 17 October 2026 Derived terms en Sri Lankan English Sri Lankanness Translations of, from, or pertaining to Sri Lanka or to the Sri Lankan people Ceylonese Asturian: ast ceilandés, ast cingalés Catalan: ca singalès Czech: cs srílanský Dutch: nl Sri Lankaans Finnish: fi srilankalainen French: fr sri-lankais Galician: gl srilankés German: de sri-lankisch Hindi: hi श्रीलंकाई Icelandic: is srílanskur Indonesian: id Sri Lanka Javanese: jv Cèylon, jv Sri Lanka Norwegian: Bokmål: nb srilankisk Nynorsk: nn srilankisk Polish: pl lankijski Portuguese: pt srilanquês Romanian: ro srilankez Russian: ru шриланки́йский, ru шри-ланки́йский, ru ланки́йский Spanish: es esrilanqués Swedish: sv srilankesisk, sv lankesisk en Nationalities Sri Lanka Finnish Proper noun fi proper noun form Sri Lankan fi Sri Lanka gen s Maltese Pronunciation mt /srɪ.lanˈkaːn/ mt aːn 3 Adjective adjective Sri Lankana Sri Lankani mt <<c/Sri Lanka>> Sri Lankan Noun noun m Sri Lankana Sri Lankani mt <<c/Sri Lanka>> Sri Lankan m mt Nationalities