THE NEW CONCISE SINHALA-ENGRISHY DICTIONARY An Expatriates' Guide To New SriLankan Buzzwords

crazylanka.com The number two crazy Srilankan site! SRI LANKA The New Sinhala-English Dictionary.............A MadPage Publication Literary Corner | PAGE 2 English as he is spoke! | PAGE 3 The Madness Continues | Dictionary1 | THE NEW CONCISE SINHALA-ENGRISHY DICTIONARY An Expatriates' Guide To New SriLankan Buzzwords More words will be added. Contributions welcome..E-mail us new words! Engineering, motor mechanics and railway Sarvaloka pootuwa (n) universal joint. S'loka=universal, pootuwa=joint or join. Beware of vulgar usage of pootuwa (s*xual innuendo) Ret Let (n) corrupt. Red Lead. Correct: Rathu eeyam. Dalco eka (n) ignition coil. From A.C. Delco and Co, manufacturers of auto electrics. Waalding (n) welding. Confusingly used also for cutting e.g bank safes, using oxyacetylene torch. Dumriya (n) orig. steam train. Modern usage: Badly tuned cheap diesel railway engines producing more smoke than steam engines. Thus retention of Dumriya for Railway. Panapowanawa (v) annealing (normal usage), also resuscitation or more correctly sobering up colleague after university alcoholic binge as in "Ado! moota panapowamu!" Pawarr sat eka (n) corrupt. Power Set, local parlance for push-pull type trains. Woman of questionable morals i.e "fast" woman (vulgar, mostly used along coastal railway belt) Miscellaneous Sambhashika (n) Receptionist. Often: The Minister's bit on the side. Bit of an alright (slang) as in "Machang ara baduwa honda Sambashikawak néda?" Compiled with the help of Vinod Moonesinghe and others. Contributions welcome... Copyright © 2002 Gyan Fernando/ crazylanka.com Literary Corner | PAGE 2 English as he is spoke! | PAGE 3 The Madness Continues | Dictionary 1 | Free JavaScripts provided by The JavaScript Source