CEFR Level
A2
Sinhala — Elementary Vocabulary
217 words
Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance.
| # | Word | Type | IPA | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | -ය | Phrase | /-jə/ | Used to form regular singulars of nouns. |
| 2 | අ | Noun | /a/ | The first vowel in Sinhalese, called "Ayanna". |
| 3 | අට | Adjective | A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine. | |
| 4 | අඩ | Adjective | /aɖə/ | |
| 5 | අඩෝ | Interjection | /aɖoː/ | sirrah, you there. |
| 6 | අද | Adverb | On the current day or date. | |
| 7 | අපි | Pronoun | ||
| 8 | අයු | Adjective | ||
| 9 | අර | Pronoun | /arə/ | that (distal). |
| 10 | අල | Noun | A plant of species Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber. | |
| 11 | අවර | Noun | The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca. | |
| 12 | අසල | Adjective | /asələ/ | near, neighbouring. |
| 13 | ආ | Noun | /aː/ | The second vowel in Sinhalese, called "Āyanna". |
| 14 | ආගම | Noun | Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals… | |
| 15 | ඇ | Noun | /æ/ | The third vowel in Sinhalese, called aeyanna. |
| 16 | ඇය | Noun, Pronoun | ||
| 17 | ඈ | Noun, Pronoun | /æː/ | The fourth vowel in Sinhalese, called "ǣyana". |
| 18 | ඉ | Noun | /i/ | The fifth vowel in Sinhalese, called iyanna. |
| 19 | ඉඳු | Noun | /[iⁿdu]/ | |
| 20 | ඉර | Noun | /[irə]/ | The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky, represented in astronomy and ast… |
| 21 | ඉස්තුති | Interjection | An expression of gratitude or politeness in response to something done or given. | |
| 22 | ඊ | Noun | /iː/ | The sixth vowel in Sinhalese. |
| 23 | ඊය | Noun | A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow. | |
| 24 | ඊරි | Noun | A female pig. | |
| 25 | ඊළඟ | Adjective | Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order. | |
| 26 | උ | Noun | /u/ | The seventh vowel in Sinhalese, called uyanna. |
| 27 | උණු | Adjective | /u.nu/ | Relating to heat and conditions which produce it. |
| 28 | උඳු | Noun | Vigna mungo, a South Asian bean used to make dal. | |
| 29 | උඹ | Pronoun | you (informal). | |
| 30 | උල | Noun | A small dot or mark. | |
| 31 | ඌ | Noun, Pronoun | /uː/ | The eighth vowel in Sinhalese. |
| 32 | ඌව | Noun | /uːʋa/ | Uva Province (a province of Sri Lanka). |
| 33 | ඍ | Noun | /ri/ | The first vowel of the miśra set, used to represent non-native words. |
| 34 | ඎ | Noun | /riː/ | |
| 35 | ඏ | Noun | /li/ | |
| 36 | ඐ | Noun | /liː/ | The fourth vowel of the miśra set, used to represent non-native words. |
| 37 | එ | Noun | /e/ | |
| 38 | එක | Adjective | /ekə/ | The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. |
| 39 | එයා | Pronoun | A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certai… | |
| 40 | එහේ | Adverb | /[eheː]/ | |
| 41 | ඒ | Noun | /eː/ | |
| 42 | ඒව | Noun | The first woman and mother of the human race; Adam's wife. | |
| 43 | ඓ | Noun | /[ai]/ | The fifth vowel of the miśra set, used to represent non-native words. |
| 44 | ඔ | Noun | /[o]/ | |
| 45 | ඔබ | Noun, Pronoun | The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.). | |
| 46 | ඔයා | Pronoun | The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.). | |
| 47 | ඔව් | Noun, Interjection | /[oʋ]/ | |
| 48 | ඔහු | Noun, Pronoun | A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certai… | |
| 49 | ඔහේ | Pronoun | /[oheː]/ | |
| 50 | ඕ | Noun, Pronoun, Interjection | /[oː]/ | |
| 51 | ඖ | Noun | /[au]/ | The sixth vowel of the miśra set, used to represent non-native words. |
| 52 | ක | Noun | /[ka]/ | The first consonant of the Sinhala script, called kayanna. |
| 53 | කටු | Adjective | /[kaʈu]/ | pungent, acrid. |
| 54 | කඩල | Noun | Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others. | |
| 55 | කණ | Adjective | /kənə/ | blind of one eye. |
| 56 | කර | Noun | The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and arm socket. | |
| 57 | කලව | Noun | The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. | |
| 58 | කහ | Adjective | ||
| 59 | කළු | Adjective | The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed. | |
| 60 | කාර | Adjective | /ka.ra/ | near, proximate. |
| 61 | කෑ | Noun | Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing so… | |
| 62 | කුර | Noun | The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering. | |
| 63 | කුල | Noun | Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cult… | |
| 64 | කෙළ | Noun | A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands, consisting of water… | |
| 65 | කේ | Pronoun | /[keː]/ | |
| 66 | කොඳ | Noun | Specifically, the collection of hairs on the top and sides of the human head, growing from the scalp. | |
| 67 | කොර | Adjective | /ko.ra/ | lame, limping. |
| 68 | කොළ | Adjective | ||
| 69 | කෝ | Adverb | In, at or to what place. | |
| 70 | ඛ | Noun | /ka/ | |
| 71 | ග | Noun | /ɡ/ | The second consonant of the Sinhala script, named "gayanna". |
| 72 | ගණං | Adjective | Having a high price or cost. | |
| 73 | ගණන | Noun | An abstract entity used to describe quantity. | |
| 74 | ගන | Adjective | /[ɡanə]/ | thick, dense. |
| 75 | ගල් | Noun | A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material. | |
| 76 | ගවි | Noun | ||
| 77 | ගී | Noun | ||
| 78 | ගෙඳ | Noun | Portulaca oleracea, an annual succulent. | |
| 79 | ඝ | Noun | /ɡʱa/ | |
| 80 | ඟ | Noun | /ᵑɡ/ | The third consonant of the Sinhala script, named Sanyaka Gayanna. |
| 81 | ච | Noun | /t͡ʃa/ | The fourth consonant of the Sinhala script, named alpaprāna cayanna. |
| 82 | චීන | Noun | The Standard Chinese language, written in Chinese characters and spoken and spelled using Standard Mandarin pronunciatio… | |
| 83 | ඡ | Noun | /t͡ʃa/ | |
| 84 | ඡදන | Noun | The external covering at the top of a building. | |
| 85 | ජ | Noun | /d͡ʒa/ | The ninth consonant of the Sinhala script, named Jayanna. |
| 86 | ජාන | Noun | A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms which may take several values and (in principle) predetermines a prec… | |
| 87 | ජාල | Noun | Any interconnected group or system. | |
| 88 | ඣ | Noun | /d͡ʒa/ | |
| 89 | ඤ | Noun | /ɲa/ | |
| 90 | ඥ | Noun | /d͡ʒɲa/ | An irregular ligature of ජ (ja) and ඤ (ña). |
| 91 | ඦ | Noun | /nd͡ʒa/ | |
| 92 | ට | Noun | /ʈa/ | The tenth consonant of the Sinhala script, named ṭayanna. |
| 93 | ඨ | Noun | /ʈa/ | |
| 94 | ඩ | Noun | /ɖa/ | The eleventh consonant of the Sinhala alphabet, named ḍayanna. |
| 95 | ඪ | Noun | /ɖa/ | |
| 96 | ණ | Noun | /ɳa/ | The twelfth consonant of the Sinhala alphabet, named muurdhaja nayanna. |
| 97 | ඬ | Noun | /ᶯɖa/ | |
| 98 | ත | Noun | /t̪a/ | |
| 99 | තනි | Adjective | /[tani]/ | single, insulated, detached, solitary. |
| 100 | තැච | Noun | ||
| 101 | තිහ | Adjective | The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, represented in Arabic numerals as 30. | |
| 102 | තුන | Adjective | A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••). | |
| 103 | තුළ | Noun | /t̪ulə/ | in, inside. |
| 104 | තොල | Noun | Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth. | |
| 105 | තෝ | Pronoun | /[toː]/ | you, thou. |
| 106 | ථ | Noun | /t̪a/ | |
| 107 | ද | Noun | /d̪a/ | |
| 108 | දඹල | Noun | A tropical legume of species Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, having clusters of purple flowers and pods with four jagged wi… | |
| 109 | දවල | Adjective | /da.ʋə.lə/ | white, pure. |
| 110 | දහය | Adjective | /d̪əhəjə/ | The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals… |
| 111 | දහස | Adjective | A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10³ (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.). | |
| 112 | දිග | Adjective | /di.ɡa/ | |
| 113 | දෙක | Adjective | A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••). | |
| 114 | දෙය | Noun | That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept. | |
| 115 | ධ | Noun | /d̪a/ | |
| 116 | න | Noun | /na/ | |
| 117 | නමය | Adjective | ||
| 118 | නම් | Conjunction | /[nam]/ | |
| 119 | නරක | Adjective | /[narəkə]/ | bad, evil. |
| 120 | නවය | Adjective | A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten. | |
| 121 | නැව | Noun | A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat. | |
| 122 | නුඹ | Pronoun | /[nuᵐbə]/ | |
| 123 | ඳ | Noun | /ⁿda/ | |
| 124 | ප | Noun | /pa/ | |
| 125 | පටු | Adjective | /[paʈu]/ | |
| 126 | පණු | Noun | Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar. | |
| 127 | පඬු | Adjective | /[paᶯɖu]/ | yellowish. |
| 128 | පනත | Noun | (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law. | |
| 129 | පනහ | Adjective | The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one. | |
| 130 | පර | Adjective | /[parə]/ | foreign, unfamiliar, alien. |
| 131 | පරණ | Adjective | /[parənə]/ | old, ancient, former. |
| 132 | පහ | Adjective | A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six. | |
| 133 | පාර | Noun | A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now… | |
| 134 | පෙර | Adjective | /pe.ra/ | |
| 135 | ඵ | Noun | /pa/ | |
| 136 | ඵලය | Noun | ||
| 137 | බ | Noun | /ba/ | |
| 138 | බද | Adjective | /[bədə]/ | joined, united. |
| 139 | බදු | Noun | Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farm… | |
| 140 | බපප | Noun | A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation. | |
| 141 | බඹ | Adjective | /[baᵐbə]/ | pre-eminent. |
| 142 | බය | Noun | A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. | |
| 143 | බස් | Noun | Any motorized vehicle, such as a motorbike or car. | |
| 144 | බා | Interjection | /[baː]/ | |
| 145 | බාල | Adjective | Low or reduced in price. | |
| 146 | බුධ | Noun | The first planet in the Solar system with the closest orbit to the Sun, named after the god; represented by ☿. | |
| 147 | බෙර | Noun | A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamb… | |
| 148 | බෙල | Noun | ||
| 149 | භ | Noun | /ba/ | |
| 150 | ම | Noun, Adverb | /ma/ | |
| 151 | මගධ | Noun | One of the sixteen Mahajanapadas of ancient India. | |
| 152 | මගේ | Article | ||
| 153 | මතක | Noun | The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will… | |
| 154 | මති | Noun | ||
| 155 | මධු | Adjective | sweet, saccharine. | |
| 156 | මම | Pronoun | The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence. | |
| 157 | මමම | Pronoun | I (emphatic); myself. | |
| 158 | මල | Noun | A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals… | |
| 159 | මලය | Noun | /mələjə/ | the Malaya Mountains. |
| 160 | මහා | Adjective | /məhaː/ | great, large, big, huge, ample, extensive, long, abundant. |
| 161 | මිල | Noun | The cost required to gain possession of something. | |
| 162 | මේ | Pronoun | /[meː]/ | |
| 163 | මොට | Adjective, Adverb | /[moʈə]/ | what for...?. |
| 164 | ඹ | Noun | /ᵐba/ | |
| 165 | ය | Noun | /[ja]/ | The twenty-first consonant of the Sinhala alphabet, named yayanna. |
| 166 | යකඩ | Noun | A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making s… | |
| 167 | යුෂ | Noun | A beverage made of juice. | |
| 168 | යෝග | Noun | Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insigh… | |
| 169 | ර | Noun | /ra/ | The twenty-second consonant of the Sinhala alphabet, named rayanna. |
| 170 | රජය | Noun | The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization. | |
| 171 | රතු | Adjective | The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (b… | |
| 172 | රා | Noun | Any alcoholic drink produced from the sap of palm trees; toddy. | |
| 173 | රැය | Noun | A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before su… | |
| 174 | රෝග | Noun | An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as… | |
| 175 | රෝම | Noun | The sixth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of St Paul to the Christians in Rome. | |
| 176 | රෝස | Noun | A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers. | |
| 177 | ල | Noun | /la/ | |
| 178 | ලඩෙ | Noun | An instance of a disease or poor health. | |
| 179 | ලඹ | Adjective | /[laᵐbə]/ | |
| 180 | ලවණ | Noun | A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seaso… | |
| 181 | ලාභ | Adjective | Low or reduced in price. | |
| 182 | ව | Noun | /ʋa/ | |
| 183 | වට | Adjective | /ʋaʈə/ | circular, round, spherical. |
| 184 | වඩා | Article | superlative degree of many: the majority of; more than half of (construed without the definite article). | |
| 185 | වධ | Noun | Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body. | |
| 186 | වන | Adjective | /[ʋanə]/ | forest, jungle, sylvan. |
| 187 | වඳ | Adjective | /[ʋaⁿdə]/ | |
| 188 | වස | Noun | A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested. | |
| 189 | වහ | Noun | A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested. | |
| 190 | විෂ | Noun | An animal toxin intended for defensive or offensive use; a biological poison delivered by bite, sting, etc., to protect… | |
| 191 | විස | Noun | A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested. | |
| 192 | ශ | Noun | /sa/ | |
| 193 | ශෛව | Adjective | /[sajʋə]/ | of or pertaining to Shiva. |
| 194 | ෂ | Noun | /sa/ | |
| 195 | සංඝ | Noun | … | |
| 196 | සතී | Noun | mindfulness, as in anapanasati; a state of mind in meditation. | |
| 197 | සමග | Noun | /[saməɡə]/ | with, together with, along with. |
| 198 | සම් | Noun | A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing; often denotes… | |
| 199 | සරම | Noun | A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in South and… | |
| 200 | සහ | Conjunction | /səhə/ | |
| 201 | ස්තුති | Interjection | An expression of gratitude or politeness in response to something done or given. | |
| 202 | සාය | Noun | A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso an… | |
| 203 | සුබ | Adjective | /su.bə/ | fortunate, happy. |
| 204 | සෛල | Noun | The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able… | |
| 205 | හඬ | Noun | Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing so… | |
| 206 | හත | Adjective | A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a grou… | |
| 207 | හතර | Adjective | A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••). | |
| 208 | හතු | Noun | A fungus producing such fruiting bodies. | |
| 209 | හය | Adjective | A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This number of dots: (••••••). | |
| 210 | හරි | Adverb | To confirm by activating a button marked OK. | |
| 211 | හා | Conjunction | /haː/ | and, also, with. |
| 212 | හැට | Adjective | The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic n… | |
| 213 | හැම | Adjective | /[hæmə]/ | All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception. |
| 214 | හෙට | Adverb | On the day after the present day. | |
| 215 | හේ | Noun | ||
| 216 | හෝ | Conjunction | An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the… | |
| 217 | ෆ | Noun | /f/ |