Cingalese

American  

[sing-guh-leez, -lees] / ˌsɪŋ gəˈliz, -ˈlis /

adjective

plural

Cingalese

1. Singhalese.

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Example Sentences

The strain of voiding dead blood cells, manufacturing new ones and trying to live on a deficient supply is what was killing thousands of Cingalese last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Cingalese of Ceylon can be traced to India; the Sumatrans to the Malayan Peninsula; the Kurile Islanders to the Peninsula of Sagalín; the Guanches of Teneriffe to the coast of Barbary.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

I have been calculating the difference between Cingalese and Greenwich time.

From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Marsh, Richard

To these there must be added the Pali, the learned, but obsolete written language of the priestly caste, which the Cingalese have in common with the kingdoms of Siam and Ava, in the further Indies.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

The narrative next refers to Ceylon, and gives a very accurate account of the Cingalese cinnamon tree; but, if Conti visited the island at all, it was probably on the return journey.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various