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)

1. 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.