Sinhalese

noun

1. 僧伽罗人（居住在斯里兰卡）
   a member of a race of people living in Sri Lanka
2. 僧伽罗语
   the language of the Sinhalese

1. According to Maldivian legend, a Sinhalese prince named Koimalaa was stranded with his bride daughter of the king of Sri Lanka in a Maldivian lagoon and stayed on to rule as the first sultan.
   根据马尔代夫的传说，从前，一个名叫Koimalaa的僧伽罗王子和他的新娘-斯里兰卡国王的女儿-被搁浅在马尔代夫的一个礁湖，无奈他们只能留在那里，至此成为了那里的第一代君王。
2. Most Sinhalese are Buddhist; most Tamils are Hindu.
   大多数僧伽罗人是佛教徒；大多数泰米尔人是印度教徒。
3. Buddhism and a sophisticated system of irrigation became the pillars of classical Sinhalese civilization ( 200 bc-1200 AD) that flourished in the north-central part of the island.
   佛教和先进的灌溉系统成为岛上北部中心古典僧伽罗文明（200bc-1200ad）繁荣的支柱。
4. The official and common language is Divehi, an Indo-European language related to Sinhalese, the language of Sri Lanka.
   马尔代夫的官方语言和最普遍的是迪维西语，一种接近于僧伽罗语（斯里兰卡的语言）的印欧语言。
5. Sizable minorities of both Sinhalese and Tamils are Christians, most of whom are Roman Catholic.
   很少僧伽罗人和泰米尔人是基督教徒，大多数是罗马天主教徒。
6. The multi-religious and multi-ethnic population includes many Buddhist monks with official languages being Sinhalese and Tamil, and English being widely spoken.
   在这个众多信仰共存的多民族国度里有许多佛僧，它的官方语言是僧伽罗语和泰米尔语，而英语也被广泛使用。
7. Ethnic Composition: a mixture of Sinhalese, Dravidian, Arab and Black. of or relating to the Sinhalese languages.
   民族：（斯里兰卡）僧伽罗人、（印度的）达罗毗荼人、阿拉伯人和黑人的混合民族。
8. Like others clambering on the Jaffna bus this week, Mr Chandran was happy that mobility between the mainly Sinhalese south and the mostly Tamil north is increasing.
   像本周其他爬上开往贾夫纳的汽车的人一样，程德先生对于连接南部僧伽罗和北部泰米尔的联系正在加强而感到高兴。