Kandyanadj.n.
/ˈkandɪən/, U.S. /ˈkændiən/ A. adj.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the town or kingdom of Kandy, or of its inhabitants.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > East Indies > [adjective] > Sri Lanka or the former Ceylon > parts of
Kandyan1883
1883 J. Ferguson Ceylon in 1883 129 The Kandyan Buddhist temples.
1923 A. Gibson Cinnamon & Frangipanni 23 Some of the real old Kandyan brass.
1933 P. Fleming Brazilian Adventure ii. 20 He spent all his..money on a fruitless search..for the buried treasure of the Kandyan Kings.
1956 R. Pieris Sinhalese Social Organization 3 The Kandyan kingdom maintained its independence under the kings of Kandy from Vimala Dharma Sūrya I (reg., A.D. 1591–1604) to the deposition of Śrī Vikrama Rājasiṃha by the British in 1815.
1969 Femina (Bombay) 26 Dec. 5/4 She also excels in the Kandyan dances of Ceylon.
1971 Weekend (Ceylon) 12 Sept. 4/1 (advt.) Father Burgher Mother Kandyan Goigama Buddhist seek partner for their pretty educated homely daughter.
B. n.
A native or inhabitant of Kandy; the language of the Kandyans.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka > [noun]
Cingalese1613
Kaffir1704
Ceylonese1726
Sinhalese1801
burgher1807
Kandyan1849
Sri Lankan1973
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indic > Sinhalese-Maldivian
Sinhalese1801
Singhalee1847
Divehi1887
Kandyan1892
Sinhala1954
Maldivian1972
1849 in T. Skinner Fifty Yrs. Ceylon (1891) 220 Robberies and bloodshed became familiar to the Kandyan.
1883 J. Ferguson Ceylon in 1883 138 Of nothing is the elephant so much afraid as of fire, and with nothing will a Kandyan approach a wild elephant so readily.
1891 T. Skinner Fifty Years Ceylon 30 My raw untaught Kandians.
1892 C. F. G. Cumming Two Happy Years Ceylon I. 255 Most of the chiefs who attended the reception could talk more or less English, but the ladies were as deficient therein as we were in Kandyan.
1942 H. A. J. Hulugalle Ceylon 10 The up-country Sinhalese are loosely called Kandyans.
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