Kandy

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of candy (Indian unit of mass) alt-of, alternative
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city, the capital of Central Province, Sri Lanka.

    "‘Something will always fall on your head,’ you say. ‘I’ve worked on construction sites in Kandy,’ she says. ‘You don’t need to tell me that.’"

Example

More examples

"‘Something will always fall on your head,’ you say. ‘I’ve worked on construction sites in Kandy,’ she says. ‘You don’t need to tell me that.’"

Etymology

From Tamil கண்டி (kaṇṭi), possibly further from Sinhalese [Term?], ultimately from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.