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Vinony

Ceylon

proper noun

  1. former name for Sri Lanka
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /sɪˈlɒn/ / /seɪˈlɑn/ / /siˈlɑn/

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Ceilão, from Old French Seilan (Marco Polo), from Persian سیلان (saylān), ultimately from Pali sīhaḷa, from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala). Doublet of Sinhala.

  1. Former name of Sri Lanka: an island country in South Asia .

    “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.”

  2. A male given name transferred from the place name.
  3. An object-oriented, strongly statically typed programming language with an emphasis on immutability.

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Ceilão, from Old French Seilan (Marco Polo), from Persian سیلان (saylān), ultimately from Pali sīhaḷa, from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala). Doublet of Sinhala.

  1. Tea produced in Sri Lanka.