As Ceylon, it became independent in 1948; its name was changed to Sri Lanka in 1972.
Source: tatoeba (8905844)
Ceylon
//seɪˈlɑn//
Synonyms for "ceylon" (1 found)
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1 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 58 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- Ceylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Albanian
1 entries- Cejloni name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Arabic
1 entries- سِيلَان name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Armenian
1 entries- Ցեյլոն name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- Seylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Basque
1 entries- Zeilan name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Belarusian
1 entries- Цэйлон name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Bengali
1 entries- সিংহল name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Цейло́н name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Burmese
1 entries- စီလုံ name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Catalan
1 entries- Ceilan name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 錫蘭 /锡兰 name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Czech
1 entries- Cejlon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Danish
1 entries- Ceylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Dutch
1 entries- Ceylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Esperanto
1 entries- Cejlono name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Estonian
1 entries- Tseilon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Finnish
1 entries- Ceylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
French
1 entries- Ceylan name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Galician
1 entries- Ceilán name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Georgian
1 entries- ცეილონი name (old name for Sri Lanka)
German
3 entries- Ceylan name (old name for Sri Lanka)
- Ceylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
- Zeylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Greek
1 entries- Κεϋλάνη name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Hebrew
1 entries- ציילון name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Hindi
2 entries- सिंहल name (old name for Sri Lanka)
- सेलोन name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Hungarian
1 entries- Ceylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Icelandic
1 entries- Seylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Indonesian
1 entries- Ceylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Irish
1 entries- an tSiolóin name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Italian
2 entries- Ceilano name (old name for Sri Lanka)
- Ceylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Japanese
1 entries- セイロン name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Korean
1 entries- 실론 name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Latvian
1 entries- Ceilona name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Ceilonas name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Macedonian
1 entries- Цејлон name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Malay
2 entries- Sailan name (old name for Sri Lanka)
- Selan name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- Ceylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- Ceylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سیلان name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Persian
1 entries- سیلان name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Polish
1 entries- Cejlon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Portuguese
1 entries- Ceilão name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Romanian
1 entries- Ceilon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Russian
1 entries- Цейло́н name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Sanskrit
1 entries- सिंहल name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- Cejlon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
- Цејлон name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Sinhalese
1 entries- සෙයිලොන් name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Slovak
1 entries- Cejlón name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Slovene
1 entries- Cejlon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Spanish
1 entries- Ceilán name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Sundanese
1 entries- Sélong name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Swedish
1 entries- Ceylon name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Tamil
1 entries- சிலோன் name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Thai
1 entries- ซีลอน name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Turkish
1 entries- Seylan name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Цейло́н name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Urdu
1 entries- سنہل name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Vietnamese
1 entries- Tích Lan name (old name for Sri Lanka)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The original Taj Mahal, adorned with Rajasthan marble, Chinese crystal, Tibetan turquoise and silver from Ceylon, was made with backbreaking manual labor over 12 years.
Source: tatoeba (11973069)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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