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In modern Javanese, it is a common part of proper names of Javanese people, e.g the name of Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Indonesian marine corps officer Lt. Col Sri Utomo. "Sri" is also a widely used name in Java used for names of placements, organizations, institutions, etc Kannada: ಶ್ರೀ (Sri or Sree) Khmer
Sinhala words of English origin mainly came about during the period of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka. This period saw absorption of several English words into the local language brought about by the interaction between the English and Sinhala languages. These are examples of Sinhala words of English origin
Sri or similar may refer to: Dewi Sri, ancient Javanese and Balinese goddess; Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth; Shree ragam, a Carnatic musical scale; Shri (musician), Shrikanth Sriram, UK; Shri (dinosaur), a genus of dsomaeusaurid dinosaur; Sri or Sri Sri, a Hindu honorific; Sri, Indonesia; Sri, Indian Tamil film
Some are very common (e.g. Perera, De Silva). The names, however, do not necessarily denote Portuguese ancestry or Christian religious affiliation, with many Buddhist Sinhalese having Portuguese-origin surnames, as Buddhism does not recognise the notion of heresy for not naming their children with names which do not originate from the Pali language
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.
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While the word Sri is used in Sanskrit as honorific prefix to the names of deities [21] and vāstavya means "a resident, inhabitant"; [22] thereby the whole meaning "in whom God dwells". Note, however, that a word's meaning is derived from its use in sentence, not from its etymology. [23]
Sinhala (/ ˈ s ɪ n h ə l ə, ˈ s ɪ ŋ ə l ə / SIN-hə-lə, SING-ə-lə; [2] Sinhala: සිංහල, siṁhala, [ˈsiŋɦələ]), [3] sometimes called Sinhalese (/ ˌ s ɪ n (h) ə ˈ l iː z, ˌ s ɪ ŋ (ɡ) ə ˈ l iː z / SIN-(h)ə-LEEZ, SING-(g)ə-LEEZ), is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the ...