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語源

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.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /sɪˈlɒn/
• (米国発音) IPA: /seɪˈlɑn/, /siˈlɑn/
• 韻: (英国発音) -ɒn, (米国発音) -ɑn

固有名詞

Ceylon

1. (archaic, historical) Former name of Sri Lanka: an island country in South Asia [prior to 1972].
   • 2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:

     Brush supplied shunters to industrial clients, but the first significant main line order came from the Ceylon Government Railway in 1950 for 25 diesel-electrics.

2. (very rare) A male given name transferred from the place name.
3. (computer languages) An object-oriented, strongly statically typed programming language with an emphasis on immutability.

使用する際の注意点

• The country name Ceylon is generally considered archaic, having been replaced by Sri Lanka, but it is still used in some contexts; see usage notes for Sri Lanka.

派生語

派生した語

• → Burmese: စီလုံ (cilum)
• → Tamil: சிலோன் (cilōṉ)

名詞

Ceylon (countable and uncountable, plural Ceylons)

1. Tea produced in Sri Lanka.

参考

• Names of Sri Lanka

アナグラム

• Cloyne, Conley