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The term "Rahath Unā"(රහත් උනා) can also be treated as blasphemy, due to the fact that the religious term "attaining Arahat (enlightened) state" is used here to mean something non-religious and mundane. The slang "'Rahath Unā'" usually refers to the situation where someone sneaks out from somewhere, without telling anyone.
Sinhala idioms (Sinhala: රූඩි, rūḍi) and colloquial expressions that are widely used to communicate figuratively, as with any other developed language.This page also contains a list of old and popular Sinhala proverbs, which are known as prastā piruḷu (ප්රස්තා පිරුළු) in Sinhala.
Sinhala slang This page was last edited on 20 December 2023, at 15:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Sinhala (Siṁhala) is a Sanskrit term; the corresponding Middle Indo-Aryan word is Sīhala. The name is a derivative of , the Sanskrit word for 'lion' सिंहः(sinhah). [12] The name is sometimes glossed as 'abode of lions', and attributed to a supposed former abundance of lions on the island. [13]
Pages in category "Sinhala words and phrases" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Geuda
This page used to be a very good reference of Sinhala slang terms, which were wholesale deleted and cannot be found anywhere on the internet anymore. I am planning to restore these section by section with whatever references I can find (which for colloquial Sinhala are sparse) Uvants 07:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
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Exception from the standard are the romanization of Sinhala long "ä" ([æː]) as "ää", and the non-marking of prenasalized stops. 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 ...