Word Origin Summary

Sri Lanka is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. श्री लङ्काSanskritderived from
2. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවSinhaleseborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• スリランカ

  Japanese · borrowed from

• Siri Lanka

  Yoruba · borrowed from

• 斯里蘭卡

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• Swii Lankʼa

  Navajo · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root