Sinhalese
Anglais modifier
Étymologie modifier
Adjectif modifier
Sinhalese \sɪn.hə.ˈliːz\
- Cingalais.
- It would be well for those European ladies and gentlemen who are anxious to commit to memory the Sinhalese words and sentences here Romanized, to write them first in Sinhalese characters.
- Il serait bon que les dames et messieurs européens soucieux de mémoriser les mots et les phrases cingalais ici romanisés les écrivent d'abord en caractères cingalais. — (Cornelis Alwis, The Sinhalese Hand-book: In Roman Characters, 1880)
- It would be well for those European ladies and gentlemen who are anxious to commit to memory the Sinhalese words and sentences here Romanized, to write them first in Sinhalese characters.
Variantes modifier
Nom commun modifier
Sinhalese \sɪn.hə.ˈliːz\ singulier et pluriel identiques
- (Géographie) Cingalais.
Nom propre modifier
Sinhalese \sɪn.hə.ˈliːz\
- (Linguistique) Cingalais.
- My practical knowledge of Sinhalese is moderate, so that the help of a learned man who speaks it as his mother-tongue was a priceless advantage to me. — (Wilhelm Geiger, A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language, 1995)
- Ma connaissance pratique du cingalais est moyenne, si bien que l'aide d'un érudit qui le parle comme sa langue maternelle a été pour moi un avantage inestimable.
- My practical knowledge of Sinhalese is moderate, so that the help of a learned man who speaks it as his mother-tongue was a priceless advantage to me. — (Wilhelm Geiger, A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language, 1995)