"Kandy" meaning in English

See Kandy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From Tamil கண்டி (kaṇṭi), possibly further from Sinhalese. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ta|கண்டி|gloss=}} Tamil கண்டி (kaṇṭi), {{der|en|si|-}} Sinhalese Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Kandy
  1. A city in Sri Lanka. Wikipedia link: Kandy Categories (place): Cities in Sri Lanka, Places in Sri Lanka Translations (city in Sri Lanka): كَانْدِي (kāndī) (Arabic), الْخَنْدُق (al-ḵanduq) (Arabic), Kandi (Azerbaijani), ကန္ဒီ (kandi) (Burmese), 康提 (Kāngtí) (Chinese Mandarin), මහනුවර (mahanuwara) (Sinhalese), கண்டி (kaṇṭi) (Tamil)
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ta",
        "3": "கண்டி",
        "gloss": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Tamil கண்டி (kaṇṭi)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "si",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Sinhalese",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Tamil கண்டி (kaṇṭi), possibly further from Sinhalese.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Kandy",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Burmese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Sinhalese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Tamil translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cities in Sri Lanka",
          "orig": "en:Cities in Sri Lanka",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Sri Lanka",
          "orig": "en:Places in Sri Lanka",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sort Of Books, page 372",
          "text": "‘Something will always fall on your head,’ you say.\n‘I’ve worked on construction sites in Kandy,’ she says. ‘You don’t need to tell me that.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A city in Sri Lanka."
      ],
      "id": "en-Kandy-en-name-72rkHc0V",
      "links": [
        [
          "Sri Lanka",
          "Sri Lanka#English"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "kāndī",
          "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
          "word": "كَانْدِي"
        },
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "al-ḵanduq",
          "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
          "word": "الْخَنْدُق"
        },
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
          "word": "Kandi"
        },
        {
          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "kandi",
          "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
          "word": "ကန္ဒီ"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "Kāngtí",
          "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
          "word": "康提"
        },
        {
          "code": "si",
          "lang": "Sinhalese",
          "roman": "mahanuwara",
          "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
          "word": "මහනුවර"
        },
        {
          "code": "ta",
          "lang": "Tamil",
          "roman": "kaṇṭi",
          "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
          "word": "கண்டி"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Kandy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Kandy"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ta",
        "3": "கண்டி",
        "gloss": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Tamil கண்டி (kaṇṭi)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "si",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Sinhalese",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Tamil கண்டி (kaṇṭi), possibly further from Sinhalese.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Kandy",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Tamil",
        "English terms derived from Sinhalese",
        "English terms derived from Tamil",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
        "Terms with Burmese translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Sinhalese translations",
        "Terms with Tamil translations",
        "en:Cities in Sri Lanka",
        "en:Places in Sri Lanka"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sort Of Books, page 372",
          "text": "‘Something will always fall on your head,’ you say.\n‘I’ve worked on construction sites in Kandy,’ she says. ‘You don’t need to tell me that.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A city in Sri Lanka."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Sri Lanka",
          "Sri Lanka#English"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Kandy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "kāndī",
      "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
      "word": "كَانْدِي"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "al-ḵanduq",
      "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
      "word": "الْخَنْدُق"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
      "word": "Kandi"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "kandi",
      "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
      "word": "ကန္ဒီ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Kāngtí",
      "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
      "word": "康提"
    },
    {
      "code": "si",
      "lang": "Sinhalese",
      "roman": "mahanuwara",
      "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
      "word": "මහනුවර"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "kaṇṭi",
      "sense": "city in Sri Lanka",
      "word": "கண்டி"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Kandy"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Kandy meaning in English (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-20 using wiktextract (8e41825 and f99c758). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.