သီဟိုဠ်

Burmese

Etymology

From Pali sīhaḷa.

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: သီဟို

IPA^(key): /θìhò/

Romanization: MLCTS: sihuil • ALA-LC: sīhuiḷʻ • BGN/PCGN: thiho • Okell: thihou

Proper noun

သီဟိုဠ် • (sihuil)

Sri Lanka, Ceylon (an island and country in South Asia, off the coast of India)

Synonyms

သီရိလင်္ကာ (siri.langka)
စီလုံ (cilum)

Derived terms

သီဟိုဠ်စေ့ (sihuilce.)
သီဟိုဠ်သရက် (sihuilsa.rak)
သီဟိုဠ်သရက်စေ့ (sihuilsa.rakce.)

Descendants

→ Shan: ႀီႇႁူဝ်ႇ (xìi hò)
→ Shan: သီႇႁူဝ်ႇ (sìi hò)

References

“သီဟိုဠ်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

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