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A Sinhalese name or Sinhala name may contain two or three parts: a patronymic, one or more given names, and sometimes a surname, which was often absent in the past. [1] Full names can be rather long, and hence are often shortened, by omitting or abbreviating the family name and one of the given names, as in R. M. S. Ariyaratna.
Kulatunga, a Sri Lankan computer engineer, [16] [17] wrote a program in Visual Basic for an English–Sinhala dictionary, using the dictionary entries from the English–Sinhalese Dictionary of Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera. [18] [19] The program was marketed from 23 November 2002.
Pages in category "Sinhalese given names" The following 135 pages are in this category, out of 135 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abhaya; Akila;
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The names Serendip, Seren-dip, Sarandib or Sarandīp are Persian and Arab [4] or Hindustani [36] names for Sri Lanka suggested to have been derived from the words Sinhala-dvipa (Sinhala Isle, dvipa or dipa means Island), or Suvarna-dvipa meaning "golden-isle". [36] Another proposal suggested the Tamil Cheran (a Tamil tribe) and tivu (island) as ...
Some prominent Korean-American figures with Korean names include novelist and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, journalist Kyung Lah, "Lost" actor Yunjin Kim, novelist Min Jin Lee, U.S. Representative ...
Sinhalese given names (3 C, 135 P) Surnames of Sinhalese origin (170 P) Pages in category "Sinhalese names" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.