Word Origin Summary

श्री लङ्का is attested in Sanskrit. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• スリランカ

  Japanese · borrowed from

• Sri Lanka

  Faroese · derived from

• Siri Lanka

  Yoruba · borrowed from

• 斯里蘭卡

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• ශ්‍රී ලංකාව

  Sinhalese · derived from

• Srí Lanka

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• Sri Lanka

  English · borrowed from

• Swii Lankʼa

  Navajo · borrowed from

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