Definition of Sinhalese in English:

Sinhalese

(also Sinhala, Singhalese)

noun ˌsɪnhəˈliːzˌsɪnəˈliːzˌsɪnhəˈliz

1A member of a people originally from northern India, now forming the majority of the population of Sri Lanka.
僧伽罗人（原先来自印度北部，现构成斯里兰卡人口的大多数）
Example sentencesExamples
- These are Sinhalese but also Tamils, Burghers and Muslims.
- In Sri Lanka, war rages again on the Jaffna Peninsula while international peace-making efforts to unite Tamils and Sinhalese are spurned.
- So did Sinhalese and Tamils, Nepalese, Taiwanese, the Balkan people and Africans.
- The Tigers are reportedly seeking an interim council to administer the northeast of the country before a peace deal is reached, made up of Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims.
- The classes were conducted for Tamils and Sinhalese separately.
- As a doctor, I don't see any difference between Tamils and Sinhalese.
- The majority of the Tamils live among the Sinhalese in the south.
- If the Sinhalese cannot get together to express their ideas how can Tamils and Sinhalese get together?
- The north and east of Sri Lanka also include sizeable communities of Sinhalese and Muslims.
- Sixteen of them were Sinhalese, while others were Muslims and Tamils.
- The east is also inhabited by Tamils and Sinhalese and is often called a ‘time bomb’ by political analysts because of the potential it holds for outbursts of ethnic violence.
- When violence erupted between Tamils and Sinhalese, the family fled to the U.S.
- Since the 1983 initiation of all-out war between the Singhalese and Tamils, Canada has been especially accommodating to Sri Lankan refugees and now hosts some 250,000 Tamils.
- I am sure the working class of Sri Lanka, Tamils and Sinhalese alike, will reject this perspective.
- I went to school with Tamils, Sinhalese and members of the Burgher community.
- The population of Trincomalee is divided into roughly equal numbers of Sinhalese and Tamils with a significant Muslim population.
- He points out that Buddhist thinkers threw their support behind Japan's militarist government in the 1930s and supported the Sinhalese in their violent civil war with the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
- The Sinhalese and Tamils celebrate their new year on April 14.
- Tamil separatists in northern areas around Jaffna are engaged in armed rebellion against the government, which is controlled by the Sinhalese.
- It involved both Tamils and Sinhalese, health employees from diverse occupations and workers from other sectors, including the banks, railways and the press, who showed their solidarity by participating.
2mass noun The Indic language of the Sinhalese.
Example sentencesExamples
- He took her to watch Sinhala-language theater, even though his own Sinhala was not sharp.
- The shop has also stocked more than 5,000 regular ringtones in seven languages including Tamil and Sinhalese and 4,000 logos.
- The bus destination was written only in Sinhalese, and Rajkumar, like many Tamils, is unable to read that language.
- There are three official languages in Sri Lanka: Sinhala, Tamil, and English.
- The first name is Sinhalese, the second Tamil and the third Christian.
- Special kinship terminology exists in both Tamil and Sinhalese for relatives in preferred or prohibited marriage categories.
- I lived most of my life with her and she spoke Sinhalese with me.
- He was arrested on January 27 and was tortured and forced to sign a statement in Sinhalese, a language he does not understand.
- As he poured the warm leafy water over my head he gave me a lesson in Sinhalese, sometimes called the language of flower petals.
- I learnt Singhalese, was bitten by a scorpion and met the Queen at a garden party held at the British High Commission in Colombo.
- The Dhivehi language is derived from Persian and Sinhalese, with elements of Sanskrit from India.
- He also had the Dhammasaga, the first book of the Abhidharma, translated into Sinhalese, but the translation has since been lost.
- He abolished his predecessor's discrimination against the Tamils, for example by introducing Tamil as an official language next to Sinhalese.
- The constitution affirmed Sinhalese as the state language and Buddhism as the state religion.
- The only evidence against them are confessions extracted under torture and written in Sinhalese - a language none of them read or write.
- Rutnam, who began his career as a props assistant for David Lean when the famous director shot ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ in Sri Lanka in 1956, has also made his own films, in Sinhalese.
- Instead, Pali has relied heavily on oral transmission and has traditionally been transcribed in Devanagari, Singhalese, Thai, and Roman scripts.
- It is not reasonable to ask him to go there because he has no family, friends, work, source of income or shelter in Colombo and does not speak the dominant language, Sinhalese.
- The dual flairs of engineering and language were by now very evident, with Thai, English, Japanese and Singhalese mastered as well as the various engineering disciplines and experience.
- Some of the important films in Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bangla, Nepali, Sinhalese etc., will be shown in this festival.

adjective ˌsɪnhəˈliːzˌsɪnəˈliːzˌsɪnhəˈliz

Relating to the Sinhalese or their language.
（与）僧伽罗人（有关）的；（与）僧伽罗语（有关）的
Example sentencesExamples
- The first press reports claimed that a crowd of local Sinhala villagers, incensed at a protest by detainees, had spontaneously invaded the centre and carried out the murders.
- Among us there were also some Sinhala detainees.
- As a registered party, the SEP was allocated 15 minutes on state-run television and radio to present its program in the Tamil and Sinhala languages.
- The pogrom was the reaction of the Sinhala ruling elite to a deepening economic and social crisis.
- He recalled Chennai's immense contribution to the initial growth and development of Sinhala cinema.
- The power of the English language in this era is indicated by the fact that Sinhala speakers subject to its force referred to it in the 1960s as the kaduva, or sword.
- The pristine Sinharaja Forest, Sinhagiriya and the Sinhala race all derive from sinha, the lion.
- Born in 1943, he is the youngest of four children in a family of Indian, Sinhalese, Dutch and English descent.
- However, to Sinhala extremists, including many in the Buddhist hierarchy, any talk of even limited autonomy for the country's Tamil minority is tantamount to treason.
- The principal medium of activity in the Vihara is the Sinhala language.
- He displayed a copy of the Sinhala language publication of the World Socialist Web Site.
- Colombo obviously had an eye on the enormous tourist potential of a Sita temple, but diehard Sinhala groups opposed the Government gifting forestland for a Hindu temple.
- Certainly, the lion figures in Sinhala folklore whereas the tiger doesn't.
- Among Sinhala extremists, such allegations - the renunciation of Buddhism, its precepts of abstinence, and the native Sinhalese language - amount to charges of treason.
- Relief and emergency supplies have arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka, but authorities are experiencing problems in distribution due to an ongoing civil conflict between Sinhalese and Tamil groups.
- The movie revolves around the bridging of the gulf between the Sinhala and the Tamil population.
- Sri Lanka is a country that boasts of 23 centuries of well-recorded and documented history, where Sinhala kings reigned for nearly 2,300 years.
- This is ‘a burning question… exploding within the hearts of Sinhala students, parents and teachers,’ it stated.
- The root cause of the ethnic conflict, Prabhakaran said, is the ‘oppressive policy of Sinhala politicians.’
- A duly certified English translation of Fernando's Sinhala statement will be made available to all those countries and Executive concerned.

Origin

From Sanskrit Siṅhala 'Sri Lanka' + -ese.

Rhymes

Achinese, Ambonese, appease, Assamese, Balinese, Belize, Beninese, Bernese, bêtise, Bhutanese, breeze, Burmese, Cantonese, Castries, cerise, cheese, chemise, Chinese, Cingalese, Cleese, Congolese, Denise, Dodecanese, ease, éminence grise, expertise, Faroese, freeze, Fries, frieze, Gabonese, Genoese, Goanese, Guyanese, he's, Japanese, Javanese, jeez, journalese, Kanarese, Keys, Lebanese, lees, legalese, Louise, Macanese, Madurese, Maltese, marquise, Milanese, Nepalese, officialese, overseas, pease, Pekinese, Peloponnese, Piedmontese, please, Portuguese, Pyrenees, reprise, Rwandese, seise, seize, Senegalese, she's, Siamese, Sienese, Sikkimese, sleaze, sneeze, squeeze, Stockton-on-Tees, Sudanese, Sundanese, Surinamese, Tabriz, Taiwanese, tease, Tees, telegraphese, these, Timorese, Togolese, trapeze, valise, Viennese, Vietnamese, vocalese, wheeze

Definition of Sinhalese in US English:

Sinhalese

(also Sinhala, Singhalese)

nounˌsinhəˈlēzˌsɪnhəˈliz

1A member of a people originally from northern India, now forming the majority of the population of Sri Lanka.
僧伽罗人（原先来自印度北部，现构成斯里兰卡人口的大多数）
Example sentencesExamples
- So did Sinhalese and Tamils, Nepalese, Taiwanese, the Balkan people and Africans.
- These are Sinhalese but also Tamils, Burghers and Muslims.
- The population of Trincomalee is divided into roughly equal numbers of Sinhalese and Tamils with a significant Muslim population.
- He points out that Buddhist thinkers threw their support behind Japan's militarist government in the 1930s and supported the Sinhalese in their violent civil war with the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
- The Tigers are reportedly seeking an interim council to administer the northeast of the country before a peace deal is reached, made up of Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims.
- In Sri Lanka, war rages again on the Jaffna Peninsula while international peace-making efforts to unite Tamils and Sinhalese are spurned.
- It involved both Tamils and Sinhalese, health employees from diverse occupations and workers from other sectors, including the banks, railways and the press, who showed their solidarity by participating.
- The Sinhalese and Tamils celebrate their new year on April 14.
- Since the 1983 initiation of all-out war between the Singhalese and Tamils, Canada has been especially accommodating to Sri Lankan refugees and now hosts some 250,000 Tamils.
- I am sure the working class of Sri Lanka, Tamils and Sinhalese alike, will reject this perspective.
- If the Sinhalese cannot get together to express their ideas how can Tamils and Sinhalese get together?
- The majority of the Tamils live among the Sinhalese in the south.
- The north and east of Sri Lanka also include sizeable communities of Sinhalese and Muslims.
- Tamil separatists in northern areas around Jaffna are engaged in armed rebellion against the government, which is controlled by the Sinhalese.
- As a doctor, I don't see any difference between Tamils and Sinhalese.
- The classes were conducted for Tamils and Sinhalese separately.
- Sixteen of them were Sinhalese, while others were Muslims and Tamils.
- The east is also inhabited by Tamils and Sinhalese and is often called a ‘time bomb’ by political analysts because of the potential it holds for outbursts of ethnic violence.
- When violence erupted between Tamils and Sinhalese, the family fled to the U.S.
- I went to school with Tamils, Sinhalese and members of the Burgher community.
2The Indic language of the Sinhalese.
Example sentencesExamples
- I lived most of my life with her and she spoke Sinhalese with me.
- Instead, Pali has relied heavily on oral transmission and has traditionally been transcribed in Devanagari, Singhalese, Thai, and Roman scripts.
- The dual flairs of engineering and language were by now very evident, with Thai, English, Japanese and Singhalese mastered as well as the various engineering disciplines and experience.
- Some of the important films in Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bangla, Nepali, Sinhalese etc., will be shown in this festival.
- He also had the Dhammasaga, the first book of the Abhidharma, translated into Sinhalese, but the translation has since been lost.
- The Dhivehi language is derived from Persian and Sinhalese, with elements of Sanskrit from India.
- The bus destination was written only in Sinhalese, and Rajkumar, like many Tamils, is unable to read that language.
- He was arrested on January 27 and was tortured and forced to sign a statement in Sinhalese, a language he does not understand.
- There are three official languages in Sri Lanka: Sinhala, Tamil, and English.
- The shop has also stocked more than 5,000 regular ringtones in seven languages including Tamil and Sinhalese and 4,000 logos.
- The only evidence against them are confessions extracted under torture and written in Sinhalese - a language none of them read or write.
- Rutnam, who began his career as a props assistant for David Lean when the famous director shot ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ in Sri Lanka in 1956, has also made his own films, in Sinhalese.
- It is not reasonable to ask him to go there because he has no family, friends, work, source of income or shelter in Colombo and does not speak the dominant language, Sinhalese.
- As he poured the warm leafy water over my head he gave me a lesson in Sinhalese, sometimes called the language of flower petals.
- He abolished his predecessor's discrimination against the Tamils, for example by introducing Tamil as an official language next to Sinhalese.
- The first name is Sinhalese, the second Tamil and the third Christian.
- Special kinship terminology exists in both Tamil and Sinhalese for relatives in preferred or prohibited marriage categories.
- The constitution affirmed Sinhalese as the state language and Buddhism as the state religion.
- I learnt Singhalese, was bitten by a scorpion and met the Queen at a garden party held at the British High Commission in Colombo.
- He took her to watch Sinhala-language theater, even though his own Sinhala was not sharp.

adjectiveˌsinhəˈlēzˌsɪnhəˈliz

Relating to the Sinhalese or their language.
（与）僧伽罗人（有关）的；（与）僧伽罗语（有关）的
Example sentencesExamples
- However, to Sinhala extremists, including many in the Buddhist hierarchy, any talk of even limited autonomy for the country's Tamil minority is tantamount to treason.
- Colombo obviously had an eye on the enormous tourist potential of a Sita temple, but diehard Sinhala groups opposed the Government gifting forestland for a Hindu temple.
- He recalled Chennai's immense contribution to the initial growth and development of Sinhala cinema.
- The pogrom was the reaction of the Sinhala ruling elite to a deepening economic and social crisis.
- Born in 1943, he is the youngest of four children in a family of Indian, Sinhalese, Dutch and English descent.
- Among us there were also some Sinhala detainees.
- He displayed a copy of the Sinhala language publication of the World Socialist Web Site.
- The root cause of the ethnic conflict, Prabhakaran said, is the ‘oppressive policy of Sinhala politicians.’
- Relief and emergency supplies have arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka, but authorities are experiencing problems in distribution due to an ongoing civil conflict between Sinhalese and Tamil groups.
- The power of the English language in this era is indicated by the fact that Sinhala speakers subject to its force referred to it in the 1960s as the kaduva, or sword.
- Certainly, the lion figures in Sinhala folklore whereas the tiger doesn't.
- The principal medium of activity in the Vihara is the Sinhala language.
- The pristine Sinharaja Forest, Sinhagiriya and the Sinhala race all derive from sinha, the lion.
- Among Sinhala extremists, such allegations - the renunciation of Buddhism, its precepts of abstinence, and the native Sinhalese language - amount to charges of treason.
- The movie revolves around the bridging of the gulf between the Sinhala and the Tamil population.
- As a registered party, the SEP was allocated 15 minutes on state-run television and radio to present its program in the Tamil and Sinhala languages.
- A duly certified English translation of Fernando's Sinhala statement will be made available to all those countries and Executive concerned.
- Sri Lanka is a country that boasts of 23 centuries of well-recorded and documented history, where Sinhala kings reigned for nearly 2,300 years.
- The first press reports claimed that a crowd of local Sinhala villagers, incensed at a protest by detainees, had spontaneously invaded the centre and carried out the murders.
- This is ‘a burning question… exploding within the hearts of Sinhala students, parents and teachers,’ it stated.

Origin

From Sanskrit Siṅhala ‘Sri Lanka’ + -ese.

词汇	Sinhalese
释义	Definition of Sinhalese in English: Sinhalese (also Sinhala, Singhalese) noun ˌsɪnhəˈliːzˌsɪnəˈliːzˌsɪnhəˈliz 1A member of a people originally from northern India, now forming the majority of the population of Sri Lanka. 僧伽罗人（原先来自印度北部，现构成斯里兰卡人口的大多数） Example sentencesExamples These are Sinhalese but also Tamils, Burghers and Muslims. In Sri Lanka, war rages again on the Jaffna Peninsula while international peace-making efforts to unite Tamils and Sinhalese are spurned. So did Sinhalese and Tamils, Nepalese, Taiwanese, the Balkan people and Africans. The Tigers are reportedly seeking an interim council to administer the northeast of the country before a peace deal is reached, made up of Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims. The classes were conducted for Tamils and Sinhalese separately. As a doctor, I don't see any difference between Tamils and Sinhalese. The majority of the Tamils live among the Sinhalese in the south. If the Sinhalese cannot get together to express their ideas how can Tamils and Sinhalese get together? The north and east of Sri Lanka also include sizeable communities of Sinhalese and Muslims. Sixteen of them were Sinhalese, while others were Muslims and Tamils. The east is also inhabited by Tamils and Sinhalese and is often called a ‘time bomb’ by political analysts because of the potential it holds for outbursts of ethnic violence. When violence erupted between Tamils and Sinhalese, the family fled to the U.S. Since the 1983 initiation of all-out war between the Singhalese and Tamils, Canada has been especially accommodating to Sri Lankan refugees and now hosts some 250,000 Tamils. I am sure the working class of Sri Lanka, Tamils and Sinhalese alike, will reject this perspective. I went to school with Tamils, Sinhalese and members of the Burgher community. The population of Trincomalee is divided into roughly equal numbers of Sinhalese and Tamils with a significant Muslim population. He points out that Buddhist thinkers threw their support behind Japan's militarist government in the 1930s and supported the Sinhalese in their violent civil war with the Tamils in Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese and Tamils celebrate their new year on April 14. Tamil separatists in northern areas around Jaffna are engaged in armed rebellion against the government, which is controlled by the Sinhalese. It involved both Tamils and Sinhalese, health employees from diverse occupations and workers from other sectors, including the banks, railways and the press, who showed their solidarity by participating. 2mass noun The Indic language of the Sinhalese. Example sentencesExamples He took her to watch Sinhala-language theater, even though his own Sinhala was not sharp. The shop has also stocked more than 5,000 regular ringtones in seven languages including Tamil and Sinhalese and 4,000 logos. The bus destination was written only in Sinhalese, and Rajkumar, like many Tamils, is unable to read that language. There are three official languages in Sri Lanka: Sinhala, Tamil, and English. The first name is Sinhalese, the second Tamil and the third Christian. Special kinship terminology exists in both Tamil and Sinhalese for relatives in preferred or prohibited marriage categories. I lived most of my life with her and she spoke Sinhalese with me. He was arrested on January 27 and was tortured and forced to sign a statement in Sinhalese, a language he does not understand. As he poured the warm leafy water over my head he gave me a lesson in Sinhalese, sometimes called the language of flower petals. I learnt Singhalese, was bitten by a scorpion and met the Queen at a garden party held at the British High Commission in Colombo. The Dhivehi language is derived from Persian and Sinhalese, with elements of Sanskrit from India. He also had the Dhammasaga, the first book of the Abhidharma, translated into Sinhalese, but the translation has since been lost. He abolished his predecessor's discrimination against the Tamils, for example by introducing Tamil as an official language next to Sinhalese. The constitution affirmed Sinhalese as the state language and Buddhism as the state religion. The only evidence against them are confessions extracted under torture and written in Sinhalese - a language none of them read or write. Rutnam, who began his career as a props assistant for David Lean when the famous director shot ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ in Sri Lanka in 1956, has also made his own films, in Sinhalese. Instead, Pali has relied heavily on oral transmission and has traditionally been transcribed in Devanagari, Singhalese, Thai, and Roman scripts. It is not reasonable to ask him to go there because he has no family, friends, work, source of income or shelter in Colombo and does not speak the dominant language, Sinhalese. The dual flairs of engineering and language were by now very evident, with Thai, English, Japanese and Singhalese mastered as well as the various engineering disciplines and experience. Some of the important films in Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bangla, Nepali, Sinhalese etc., will be shown in this festival. adjective ˌsɪnhəˈliːzˌsɪnəˈliːzˌsɪnhəˈliz Relating to the Sinhalese or their language. （与）僧伽罗人（有关）的；（与）僧伽罗语（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples The first press reports claimed that a crowd of local Sinhala villagers, incensed at a protest by detainees, had spontaneously invaded the centre and carried out the murders. Among us there were also some Sinhala detainees. As a registered party, the SEP was allocated 15 minutes on state-run television and radio to present its program in the Tamil and Sinhala languages. The pogrom was the reaction of the Sinhala ruling elite to a deepening economic and social crisis. He recalled Chennai's immense contribution to the initial growth and development of Sinhala cinema. The power of the English language in this era is indicated by the fact that Sinhala speakers subject to its force referred to it in the 1960s as the kaduva, or sword. The pristine Sinharaja Forest, Sinhagiriya and the Sinhala race all derive from sinha, the lion. Born in 1943, he is the youngest of four children in a family of Indian, Sinhalese, Dutch and English descent. However, to Sinhala extremists, including many in the Buddhist hierarchy, any talk of even limited autonomy for the country's Tamil minority is tantamount to treason. The principal medium of activity in the Vihara is the Sinhala language. He displayed a copy of the Sinhala language publication of the World Socialist Web Site. Colombo obviously had an eye on the enormous tourist potential of a Sita temple, but diehard Sinhala groups opposed the Government gifting forestland for a Hindu temple. Certainly, the lion figures in Sinhala folklore whereas the tiger doesn't. Among Sinhala extremists, such allegations - the renunciation of Buddhism, its precepts of abstinence, and the native Sinhalese language - amount to charges of treason. Relief and emergency supplies have arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka, but authorities are experiencing problems in distribution due to an ongoing civil conflict between Sinhalese and Tamil groups. The movie revolves around the bridging of the gulf between the Sinhala and the Tamil population. Sri Lanka is a country that boasts of 23 centuries of well-recorded and documented history, where Sinhala kings reigned for nearly 2,300 years. This is ‘a burning question… exploding within the hearts of Sinhala students, parents and teachers,’ it stated. The root cause of the ethnic conflict, Prabhakaran said, is the ‘oppressive policy of Sinhala politicians.’ A duly certified English translation of Fernando's Sinhala statement will be made available to all those countries and Executive concerned. Origin From Sanskrit Siṅhala 'Sri Lanka' + -ese. Rhymes Achinese, Ambonese, appease, Assamese, Balinese, Belize, Beninese, Bernese, bêtise, Bhutanese, breeze, Burmese, Cantonese, Castries, cerise, cheese, chemise, Chinese, Cingalese, Cleese, Congolese, Denise, Dodecanese, ease, éminence grise, expertise, Faroese, freeze, Fries, frieze, Gabonese, Genoese, Goanese, Guyanese, he's, Japanese, Javanese, jeez, journalese, Kanarese, Keys, Lebanese, lees, legalese, Louise, Macanese, Madurese, Maltese, marquise, Milanese, Nepalese, officialese, overseas, pease, Pekinese, Peloponnese, Piedmontese, please, Portuguese, Pyrenees, reprise, Rwandese, seise, seize, Senegalese, she's, Siamese, Sienese, Sikkimese, sleaze, sneeze, squeeze, Stockton-on-Tees, Sudanese, Sundanese, Surinamese, Tabriz, Taiwanese, tease, Tees, telegraphese, these, Timorese, Togolese, trapeze, valise, Viennese, Vietnamese, vocalese, wheeze Definition of Sinhalese in US English: Sinhalese (also Sinhala, Singhalese) nounˌsinhəˈlēzˌsɪnhəˈliz 1A member of a people originally from northern India, now forming the majority of the population of Sri Lanka. 僧伽罗人（原先来自印度北部，现构成斯里兰卡人口的大多数） Example sentencesExamples So did Sinhalese and Tamils, Nepalese, Taiwanese, the Balkan people and Africans. These are Sinhalese but also Tamils, Burghers and Muslims. The population of Trincomalee is divided into roughly equal numbers of Sinhalese and Tamils with a significant Muslim population. He points out that Buddhist thinkers threw their support behind Japan's militarist government in the 1930s and supported the Sinhalese in their violent civil war with the Tamils in Sri Lanka. The Tigers are reportedly seeking an interim council to administer the northeast of the country before a peace deal is reached, made up of Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims. In Sri Lanka, war rages again on the Jaffna Peninsula while international peace-making efforts to unite Tamils and Sinhalese are spurned. It involved both Tamils and Sinhalese, health employees from diverse occupations and workers from other sectors, including the banks, railways and the press, who showed their solidarity by participating. The Sinhalese and Tamils celebrate their new year on April 14. Since the 1983 initiation of all-out war between the Singhalese and Tamils, Canada has been especially accommodating to Sri Lankan refugees and now hosts some 250,000 Tamils. I am sure the working class of Sri Lanka, Tamils and Sinhalese alike, will reject this perspective. If the Sinhalese cannot get together to express their ideas how can Tamils and Sinhalese get together? The majority of the Tamils live among the Sinhalese in the south. The north and east of Sri Lanka also include sizeable communities of Sinhalese and Muslims. Tamil separatists in northern areas around Jaffna are engaged in armed rebellion against the government, which is controlled by the Sinhalese. As a doctor, I don't see any difference between Tamils and Sinhalese. The classes were conducted for Tamils and Sinhalese separately. Sixteen of them were Sinhalese, while others were Muslims and Tamils. The east is also inhabited by Tamils and Sinhalese and is often called a ‘time bomb’ by political analysts because of the potential it holds for outbursts of ethnic violence. When violence erupted between Tamils and Sinhalese, the family fled to the U.S. I went to school with Tamils, Sinhalese and members of the Burgher community. 2The Indic language of the Sinhalese. Example sentencesExamples I lived most of my life with her and she spoke Sinhalese with me. Instead, Pali has relied heavily on oral transmission and has traditionally been transcribed in Devanagari, Singhalese, Thai, and Roman scripts. The dual flairs of engineering and language were by now very evident, with Thai, English, Japanese and Singhalese mastered as well as the various engineering disciplines and experience. Some of the important films in Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bangla, Nepali, Sinhalese etc., will be shown in this festival. He also had the Dhammasaga, the first book of the Abhidharma, translated into Sinhalese, but the translation has since been lost. The Dhivehi language is derived from Persian and Sinhalese, with elements of Sanskrit from India. The bus destination was written only in Sinhalese, and Rajkumar, like many Tamils, is unable to read that language. He was arrested on January 27 and was tortured and forced to sign a statement in Sinhalese, a language he does not understand. There are three official languages in Sri Lanka: Sinhala, Tamil, and English. The shop has also stocked more than 5,000 regular ringtones in seven languages including Tamil and Sinhalese and 4,000 logos. The only evidence against them are confessions extracted under torture and written in Sinhalese - a language none of them read or write. Rutnam, who began his career as a props assistant for David Lean when the famous director shot ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ in Sri Lanka in 1956, has also made his own films, in Sinhalese. It is not reasonable to ask him to go there because he has no family, friends, work, source of income or shelter in Colombo and does not speak the dominant language, Sinhalese. As he poured the warm leafy water over my head he gave me a lesson in Sinhalese, sometimes called the language of flower petals. He abolished his predecessor's discrimination against the Tamils, for example by introducing Tamil as an official language next to Sinhalese. The first name is Sinhalese, the second Tamil and the third Christian. Special kinship terminology exists in both Tamil and Sinhalese for relatives in preferred or prohibited marriage categories. The constitution affirmed Sinhalese as the state language and Buddhism as the state religion. I learnt Singhalese, was bitten by a scorpion and met the Queen at a garden party held at the British High Commission in Colombo. He took her to watch Sinhala-language theater, even though his own Sinhala was not sharp. adjectiveˌsinhəˈlēzˌsɪnhəˈliz Relating to the Sinhalese or their language. （与）僧伽罗人（有关）的；（与）僧伽罗语（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples However, to Sinhala extremists, including many in the Buddhist hierarchy, any talk of even limited autonomy for the country's Tamil minority is tantamount to treason. Colombo obviously had an eye on the enormous tourist potential of a Sita temple, but diehard Sinhala groups opposed the Government gifting forestland for a Hindu temple. He recalled Chennai's immense contribution to the initial growth and development of Sinhala cinema. The pogrom was the reaction of the Sinhala ruling elite to a deepening economic and social crisis. Born in 1943, he is the youngest of four children in a family of Indian, Sinhalese, Dutch and English descent. Among us there were also some Sinhala detainees. He displayed a copy of the Sinhala language publication of the World Socialist Web Site. The root cause of the ethnic conflict, Prabhakaran said, is the ‘oppressive policy of Sinhala politicians.’ Relief and emergency supplies have arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka, but authorities are experiencing problems in distribution due to an ongoing civil conflict between Sinhalese and Tamil groups. The power of the English language in this era is indicated by the fact that Sinhala speakers subject to its force referred to it in the 1960s as the kaduva, or sword. Certainly, the lion figures in Sinhala folklore whereas the tiger doesn't. The principal medium of activity in the Vihara is the Sinhala language. The pristine Sinharaja Forest, Sinhagiriya and the Sinhala race all derive from sinha, the lion. Among Sinhala extremists, such allegations - the renunciation of Buddhism, its precepts of abstinence, and the native Sinhalese language - amount to charges of treason. The movie revolves around the bridging of the gulf between the Sinhala and the Tamil population. As a registered party, the SEP was allocated 15 minutes on state-run television and radio to present its program in the Tamil and Sinhala languages. A duly certified English translation of Fernando's Sinhala statement will be made available to all those countries and Executive concerned. Sri Lanka is a country that boasts of 23 centuries of well-recorded and documented history, where Sinhala kings reigned for nearly 2,300 years. The first press reports claimed that a crowd of local Sinhala villagers, incensed at a protest by detainees, had spontaneously invaded the centre and carried out the murders. This is ‘a burning question… exploding within the hearts of Sinhala students, parents and teachers,’ it stated. Origin From Sanskrit Siṅhala ‘Sri Lanka’ + -ese.
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