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Ceylon
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English
Alternative forms
en Ceylone Zeyloon obsolete
Etymology
en :bor pt:Ceilão 1
en pt Ceilão, from en fro Seilan (Marco Polo), from en fa سیلان saylān, ultimately from en pi sīhaḷa, from en sa सिंहल. en Sinhala.
Pronunciation
en /sɪˈlɒn/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Ceylon.wav Southern England
en /seɪˈlɑn/ /siˈlɑn/ US
en ɒn UK ɑn US 2
Proper noun
en Q854en archaic historical en @former name of:Sri Lanka island country r/South Asia archaic prior to 1972.
en 2021 June 30 David Clough Brush: a UK rail icon RAIL 934 55 Brush supplied shunters to industrial clients, but the first significant main line order came from the Ceylon Government Railway in 1950 for 25 diesel-electrics.
en very rare en male place names.
en programming language An object-oriented, strongly statically typed programming language with an emphasis on immutability.
Usage notes
The country name Ceylon is generally considered archaic, having been replaced by Sri Lanka, but it is still used in some contexts; see usage notes for Sri Lanka.
Derived terms
en ceylonite Ceylon gooseberry Ceylon ironwood Ceylonese Ceylon moss Ceylon tea Ceylon cinnamon Ceylon ebony Ceylon jasmine Ceylon oak
Descendants
my စီလုံ 1
ta சிலோன் 1
Translations
old name for Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Afrikaans: af Ceylon
Albanian: sq Cejloni
Arabic: ar سِيلَان m
Armenian: hy Ցեյլոն
Azerbaijani: az Seylon
Basque: eu Zeilan
Belarusian: be Цэйлон m
Bengali: bn সিংহল śiṅghôl
Bulgarian: bg Цейло́н m
Burmese: my စီလုံ
Catalan: ca Ceilan
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 錫蘭 Xīlán
Czech: cs Cejlon m
Danish: da Ceylon
Dutch: nl Ceylon
Esperanto: eo Cejlono
Estonian: et Tseilon
Finnish: fi Ceylon
French: fr Ceylan m
Galician: gl Ceilán m
Georgian: ka ცეილონი
German: de Ceylon n; also: de Zeylon n, de Ceylan n
Greek: el Κεϋλάνη f
Hebrew: he ציילון m tseilón
Hindi: hi सेलोन, hi सिंहल m
Hungarian: hu Ceylon
Icelandic: is Seylon
Indonesian: id Ceylon
Irish: ga Siolóin f an tSiolóin
Italian: it Ceylon, it Ceilano
Japanese: ja セイロン Seiron
Korean: ko ^실론
Latvian: lv Ceilona f
Lithuanian: lt Ceilonas m
Macedonian: mk Цејлон m
Malay: ms Sailan, ms Selan
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Ceylon
Nynorsk: nn Ceylon
Persian: fa سیلان saylân
Polish: pl Cejlon m
Portuguese: pt Ceilão m
Romanian: ro Ceilon m
Russian: ru Цейло́н m
Sanskrit: sa सिंहल m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Цејлон m
Latin: sh Cejlon m
Sinhalese: si සෙයිලොන් Seyilon
Slovak: sk Cejlón m
Slovene: sl Cejlon m
Spanish: es Ceilán m
Sundanese: su Sélong
Swedish: sv Ceylon
Tamil: ta சிலோன்
Thai: th ซีลอน siil-on
Turkish: tr Seylan
Ottoman Turkish: ota سیلان Seylan
Ukrainian: uk Цейло́н m
Urdu: ur سنہل sinhal
Vietnamese: vi Tích Lan
Noun
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Tea produced in Sri Lanka.
See also
Names of Sri Lanka
Anagrams
en celnoy Cloyne Conley
en Sri Lanka
Finnish
Etymology
fi :ubor en:Ceylon
fi en Ceylon, from fi pt Ceilão.
Pronunciation
seilon
Proper noun
fi Ceylon Q854
Declension
Ceylon a 0 sg
Synonyms
fi Sri Lanka
Derived terms
fi compounds ceyloninkaneli ceyloninmoringa ceyloninpalmuhiiri ceyloninpitkähäntäpäästäinen