Taprabane
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Taprabane is īeȝland rīċe in ofer Indealandes sūðstrand. 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, þæt landes ambiht nama ƿæs aƿended to "Sri Lanka" (in Sinhala 
śrī laṃkā, IPA: [ˌʃɾiːˈlaŋkaː]; whereas the island itself is referred to as ලංකාව laṃkāva, IPA: [laŋˈkaːʋə], in Tamil இலங்கை ilaṅkai, iˈlaŋgai). "Sri Lanka" is fram Sanskrit word 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] Glēsing
- ↑ Abeydeera, Ananda. In Search of Taprobane: the Western discovery and mapping of Ceylon. Retrieved on 2007-06-04.
- ↑ Bysen:Cite journal
- ↑ Bysen:Cite journal
- ↑ Zubair, Lareef. Etymologies of Lanka, Serendib, Taprobane and Ceylon. Retrieved on 2007-06-04.
- ↑ Bysen:Cite news
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