cingalais
French, noun/sɛ̃.ɡa.lɛ/
cingalais is spelled C-I-N-G-A-L-A-I-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written French, the 179,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cingalais is a French masculine noun meaning “Sinhalese language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue parlée au Sri Lanka principalement par les Cingalais, appartenant au groupe indo-aryen des langues…”.
What does cingalais mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Sinhalese
noun
- 1
masculineSinhalese language
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Langue parlée au Sri Lanka principalement par les Cingalais, appartenant au groupe indo-aryen des langues indo-européennes, c’est une des deux langues officielles de ce pays.
adjective: 1. Relatif aux Cingalais, à leur culture ou à leur langue.
noun: 1. Membre de l’ethnie majoritaire de Sri Lanka, constituant 75 % de la population sri-lankaise, avec une population de 15 millions dans le monde entier.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cingalais
- cingalaise feminine
- cingalaises feminine plural
- cinghalais alternative
- singhalais alternative
- singalais
- Cingalaise feminine
- Cinghalais
- Singalais
- Singhalais
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cingalais?
- /sɛ̃.ɡa.lɛ/
- \sɛ̃.ɡa.lɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cingalais
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cingalais in French?
cingalais appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).