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Ceilan.

Ceylon (former name of Sri Lanka: an island country in South Asia)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Català language

Meaning & usage

name[səjˈlan]Balearic, Central, Northern[sejˈlan]Northwestern, Valencia

  1. Ceylon (former name of Sri Lanka: an island country in South Asia)

    archaic · historical · masculine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Portuguese Ceilão, from Old French Seilan (Marco Polo), probably a back-formation from Arabic سَرَنْدِيب (sarandīb), from Persian سرندیپ (sarandip), from Prakrit *𑀲𑀻𑀳𑀮𑀤𑀻𑀯 (*sīhaladīva), from Sanskrit सिंहलद्वीप (siṃhaladvīpa).

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