Ceylon

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• UK: /sɪˈlɒn/
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• US: /seɪˈlɑn/
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• US: /siˈlɑn/
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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.

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: Ceylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Albanian: Cejloni — old name for Sri Lanka
• Arabic: سِيلَان (sīlān) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Armenian: Ցեյլոն (Cʻeylon) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Azerbaijani: Seylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Basque: Zeilan — old name for Sri Lanka
• Belarusian: Цэйлон (Cejlón) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Bengali: সিংহল (śiṅghôl) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Bulgarian: Цейло́н (Cejlón) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Burmese: စီလုံ (cilum) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Catalan: Ceilan — old name for Sri Lanka
• Chinese Mandarin: 錫蘭 /锡兰 (Xīlán) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Czech: Cejlon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Danish: Ceylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Dutch: Ceylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Esperanto: Cejlono — old name for Sri Lanka
• Estonian: Tseilon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Finnish: Ceylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• French: Ceylan — old name for Sri Lanka
• Galician: Ceilán — old name for Sri Lanka
• Georgian: ცეილონი (ceiloni) — old name for Sri Lanka
• German: Ceylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• German: Zeylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• German: Ceylan — old name for Sri Lanka
• Greek: Κεϋλάνη (Keÿláni) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Hebrew: ציילון (tseilón) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Hindi: सेलोन (selon) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Hindi: सिंहल (sĩhal) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Hungarian: Ceylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Icelandic: Seylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Indonesian: Ceylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Irish: an tSiolóin — old name for Sri Lanka
• Italian: Ceylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Italian: Ceilano — old name for Sri Lanka
• Japanese: セイロン (Seiron) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Korean: 실론 (Sillon) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Latvian: Ceilona — old name for Sri Lanka
• Lithuanian: Ceilonas — old name for Sri Lanka
• Macedonian: Цејлон (Cejlon) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Malay: Sailan — old name for Sri Lanka
• Malay: Selan — old name for Sri Lanka
• Norwegian Bokmål: Ceylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Norwegian Nynorsk: Ceylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Persian: سیلان (saylân) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Polish: Cejlon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Portuguese: Ceilão — old name for Sri Lanka
• Romanian: Ceilon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Russian: Цейло́н (Cejlón) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Sanskrit: सिंहल (siṃhala) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Serbo-Croatian: Цејлон — old name for Sri Lanka
• Serbo-Croatian: Cejlon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Sinhalese: සෙයිලොන් (seyilon) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Slovak: Cejlón — old name for Sri Lanka
• Slovene: Cejlon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Spanish: Ceilán — old name for Sri Lanka
• Sundanese: Sélong — old name for Sri Lanka
• Swedish: Ceylon — old name for Sri Lanka
• Tamil: சிலோன் (cilōṉ) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Thai: ซีลอน (siil-on) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Turkish: Seylan — old name for Sri Lanka
• Ottoman Turkish: سیلان (Seylan) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Ukrainian: Цейло́н (Cejlón) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Urdu: سنہل (sinhal) — old name for Sri Lanka
• Vietnamese: Tích Lan — old name for Sri Lanka