Taprabane
Taprabane is īeȝland rīċe ofer Indealandes sūðstrand in þǣm Indiscan Gārsecge. Sēo īeȝ hæfþ tƿeontiȝ million menn.
[ādihtan] Nama
Taprabane hæfþ in missenlicum ȝereordum mæniȝe namen. Ealdcrecas nemedon hīe Taprobane[1] (and Ælfred cyning ȝeaf hīe þone naman Tapraban and Deprobane. Þāra Arabum ƿæs hēo Serendib[2]. To Marco Polo ƿæs hēo cūþ sƿā Seilan, and Ceilão ƿæs se nama ȝeȝiefan be Portugalƿarum þā hīe comon to Taprabane in 1505[3]. On Nīƿum Englisce ƿæs īeȝlandes nama Ceylon[4].
In 1972 ƿæs þæs rīces ambiht nama aƿended to "Sri Lanka" (in Sinhalisce 
śrī laṃkā, IPA: [ˌʃɾiːˈlaŋkaː]. Þæs īeglandes selfes nama is in Sinhalisce ලංකාව Laṃkāva, IPA: [laŋˈkaːʋə], and in Tamilisce இலங்கை ilaṅkai, iˈlaŋgai). "Sri Lanka" is of Sanskrit worde laṃkā, se is "boldƿela land"[5], se ƿæs ēac his nama in eald Indiscan ealdsogan þæs "Mahabharata" and þæs "Ramayana". Sri is Sanskrit titul of āre.
[ādihtan] Fruman
- ↑ Abeydeera, Ananda. In Search of Taprobane: the Western discovery and mapping of Ceylon. Beȝieten on 2007-06-04.
- ↑ "Sri Lanka - The Pearl of the Orient". Metropolis. http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyotravel/tokyoworldtravelarchive299/295/tokyoworldtravelinc.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-04.
- ↑ Rajasingham, K T. "Sri Lanka: The untold story". Asia Times. http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/CH11Df02.html. Retrieved 2007-06-04.
- ↑ Zubair, Lareef. Etymologies of Lanka, Serendib, Taprobane and Ceylon. Beȝieten on 2007-06-04.
- ↑ de Silva, Colin (February 14, 1982). "Sri Lanka, The 'Resplendent Isle'". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9A01EED61E38F937A25751C0A964948260. Retrieved 2007-06-04.
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