Thanks Dilshan, another helpful blog – and many of the comments also add to the understanding. :). Speak to you soon in the comments below. My favourite fruit.) Also fyi, “seeni” means “sugar”. Hesitant to join, Angelika? Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2018-04-17 Never even saw it on a menu. I hope this rings a bell, and it’s not just my family/the area they live in. Usage Frequency: 1 And of course, if you know some friends who might like this post, please go ahead and share it with them too. Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2020-04-23 So I’m gad you liked the post, since it was partially your idea. To be taken in moderation! A question: Is fruit available everywhere in Sri Lanka? Budu Saranai. :). That’s helpful. Happy to have helped. Was I wrong? That’s true Janette, those two fruits you mentioned are not for everyone, haha. I,ve got a teaching poster with all different fruits. Also, how come I don’t see your email address on my subscriber base? Yes,I think your boyfriend got it right when he said “something roundish”. All fruits are mostly made of carbohydrates, although calories in fruit can also come from fats and small amounts of protein. The fruit has a strong scent and superior flavor than both jackfruit and cempadak. f.,Trichilia nervosa Vahl, Sandoricum nervosum, Sandoricum indicum Cav., Sandoricum ternatum Blanco, Sandoricum koetjape Merr. Quality: Similarly, if you end up hating this post, well… you know who to hunt down…. durian is very yummy and we also have that in my country Philippines. Quality: It also happens to be the national fruit of Thailand. And this is soooo helpfull. In this regard I can only encourage other students of “Lazybutsmartsinhala” to do the same thing. Thanks Siva. Usage Frequency: 1 thank you very much mr dilshan realy its very good to know about fruits i like it very much. Nobody? Janette. Sometimes “gé∙di∙yȧ” is also used to refer to a cyst or a boil on your body or the swelling bump that appears on your forehead after you’ve knocked it. Does it have a hard shell or soft? Thank you & best wishes – Tamara. A couple years ago I went to Vietnam and really enjoyed mangosteen, dried jack fruit, rambutan, lychee, and custard apple. Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2018-12-18 (Oyata paluwan – right?) I’m on my first steps of learning, maybe I’m just not smart enough to understand, however please explain the following: “I” means “mama” and “ma∙tȧ” means “to me” or “for me” as I have already learned from your previous posts (thanks again )))). Durian is your favorite? Take care and do stay in touch. I can’t say that everything is absolutely clear with Ma∙mȧ vs. Ma∙tȧ…However it seems to me that I started to understand, so I’m on my way Thanks again. Quality: Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2018-09-12 One more you can add are kaamaranga – star fruit (which can be cooked as a vegetable as well), and a few others for which I do not know the English words – sapadilla, naminan, uguressa, masan, and something that is seldom seen now – laaulu. It has been created collecting TMs from the European Union and United Nations, and aligning the best domain-specific multilingual websites. Perhaps you could also add Beli, (Bael fruit or stone apple). I appreciate your encouragement. And wood-apple, well, I don’t think everybody would agree with what you’ve heard. Really appreciate your effort. Ha, lychees and chalky taste, that’s good. You know what, I’m currently struggling find an equivalent English word for it. One whole month I was there and enjoyed my stay there. , Cicca disticha, ''L. - High in carbohydrates, fair in iron, but low in calcium. Hope it helps. Similarly, using the new adjectives we just saw, we can now guess that: (Obviously, this last phrase is useful for those moments in life when you’re desperately in the mood for some good old spoiled fruit…). Well, Alex.. you tell me ;-) http://www.lazybutsmartsinhala.com/vegetables-in-sinhala/. Hi Noorul, I believe the English name is “Sapodilla”. Thanks again. - Santol makes a delicious preserve - peeled, quartered, and cooked in syrup. All your efforts are very much appreciated. C empadek, Durian, Mangosteen, Longan, Maprang, Jaboticaba, Pulasan, Santol and Abiu—these are names of some exotic fruits that are native to Southeast Asian countries like China, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.. Very interesting, thank you. Thanks. Haha, yeah now that you mentioned the song, I had to find it on YouTube too. Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2018-04-29 It is one of the fruits of the soapberry family. –, That’s an excellent point, I didn’t realize that. From: Machine Translation That’s interesting about the Malay words. And would this be the correct negative? Hi Shaggy, don’t know if you remember but you asked me in a comment or email if I’d already done a post on fruits, which got me thinking. I ask because I know in Vietnam some regions had much more than others and it was more or less expensive in different places. MyMemory is the world's largest Translation Memory. I was wondering for this particular post why there is no mention of fruits as “(fruit name)-geddia?” My family in Sri Lanka and I refer to fruits/bread in that way, and I was looking for an explanation to that in this post. I am now teaching in a village school outside Mirigama. I was literally just fawning over it! I might even borrow it the next time someone asks me the same question (but your boyfriend is not getting any royalties from me though.. let’s not get crazy :). Re. Which fruits did you think that only you guys had? This round fruit has brown to orange skin and is the size of an average apple. Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum) is a fruit native to Southeast Asia.It grows in a tree that can reach up to 80 feet (27 meters) in height and thrives best in … may i know the english name of ` sepadhilla / sethapilla ‘. Now listen, by “common” fruits I simply mean fruits that you’ve most likely heard of before. Keep it up. I don’t find any difficulty in learning Sinhala. Your friends are also right about the dhé∙hi. Hi Dilshan! Longan is one of the most widely grown fruits in Kerala. I should probably change the tag line of this blog to”Lazy But Smart Sinhala: some think of it as the Sinhala heavens”, haha. Before you sign up for anything, Click here to find out if this blog is right for you. I really enjoyed it and learned some new words, particularly, surprisingly some English names for Sinhala fruit names that I new already!! They’re like so umm… delish and yummy…”. I usually eat lychees at the Chinese restaurant: I’ve always thought they smell like roses but taste kinda funny, almost … chalky? There are other fruits growing in Sri Lanka which are not mentioned here. Sorry buddy, I’m going to need a wee bit more info. Yes, I’m very serious on learning Sinhala, but going at a slow pace due to my age. Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2018-10-01 Quality: Not that I’ve ever tasted chalk, mind you. What the f*** did I just eat?!”. Reference: Anonymous. Quality: Many thanks Dilshan. Very happy that you like the way I present my material. That’s great to hear Jayamathan. hei.thank u for this post. Sigh I do hope it changes, but your blog was almost for me like looking up at the Sinhala heavens when I discovered it. Passion fruit is the fruit of the Passiflora vine, a type of passion flower. Quality: its soooo useful. Unfortunately, this is not something that interests me right now (there’s a reason why this blog has the word “lazy” all over it… :)) If my attitude to classes changes, I will let you and all those interested know. Totally agree with you. Quality: Yeah, I’m awful like that…. I’ll go to the fruit market at Peradeniya and practice. I’m sure you know this already (but I’ll write it for the benefit of anyone else reading this): iti = “wax” olu = comes from the word ‘oluwa’ which means “head”. ), I really don’t want to hear any comments like “I’m like sooo offended. Hi buddy, I did a quick google search and found this. You’re encouraging, as always. There must be some rules when we should use “ma∙mȧ” and when “ma∙tȧ” or it is just the case that we need to remember and don’t try to understand? Some fruit is not available in single pieces. Dear Hanna, that was such a lovely comment, thank you so much. Also, although I knew we Sri Lankans couldn’t be the only ones who ate fruits with salt, pepper, and chilli, I’m glad to have this confirmed by you. your question, this is an ongoing study that I’m doing. Usage Frequency: 60 Usage Frequency: 1 Also, my friends have previously mentioned that lemon & lime are called the same – dehi, and to differentiate, they say loku dehi for lemon (big dehi) and poddy dehi for lime (small dehi?). I had no idea that you grew pomegranate in Italy and mind you, I’ve been to a couple of Italian cities too. Wow, amazing blog, I am a Sinhalese person but I forgot about the names of many fruits. I thought about mentioning this but decided against it as I didn’t want to scare anyone by revealing how we sometimes eat our fruit, haha. I suppose ‘common’ or ‘exotic’ depends on where you are coming from, but you are right, there are a couple of exotic ones I don’t know (too lazy to count how many, or to wikipedia them as well). Fruits Home Full List of Fruits Santol Fruit There’s no ambiguity that way. The cyst thing was something I hadn’t heard before, wow! Do you mean “puhul”? Let me know if this is what you meant and I’ll think further about a full blog post. You pay a certain amount and you can eat as much as you can, get stuffed and suffer the next day hahah! Where it starts to get confusing is when it is found in other contexts. nice….simple….very useful blog….DJ…..you really care for your fans….and think about them….. Oh wow Peter, that’s a great collection of “gediya” words! Usage Frequency: 2 Will certainly do it but will see what responses I get to my question in my email (which you must have got by now) to decide if I do it next, ok? so – ambul kesel, ratu kesel, seeni kesel… (this last one I have been told is the most delicious). Usage Frequency: 1 In fact, when I did some research on this post, many articles also gave the Malay name for the fruits, so I guessed that you might have all these fruits in Malaysia. Guava, I think I might prefer the raw than the ripe. Let’s see if you can prove me wrong by the end of this post (I’m feeling very cocky, in case you hadn’t noticed already). Could You kindly Tell me about LAWALU fruit. Hi Dilshan, Thank you so much for the blogs. I have been hearing about the different types of banana, which I have been told is kesel? I’m also interested in learning languages. I’m not too sure if Jambola is really the Grapefuit. Been looking for this for weeks….Help ! ), lavalu and star fruit come to mind. My favourite is probably mangosteen – when I hear the Sinhala name I think they’re talking about mangoes. p.s- This post of about fruits suddenly reminds me of the song “Lunu Dehi by Gypsies. The seeds are up to 2 cm long in size. Appreciate your valuable effort with many thanks. :)… Don’t get me wrong, I too am guilty of giving answers like that to my girlfriend when I’m not in the chatty mood but I’d say the answer is not complete. Thanks for your contribution Cass! So for example, “rambu∙tan gé∙di∙yȧ” would imply “1 rambutan fruit”. Thank you so much Dilshan for this post! Similar phrases in dictionary English Tamil. Glad that Cass and I could help you clear this up. Some of them are same in Malayalam language in Kerala, India. Hi Shirley, thanks for the kind words. The skin of the dried fruit is wrinkled and covered with a waxy film, sticky. Maybe someone else might see your question and help you. I don’t find any difficulty in learning Sinhala. They tell me that wood apple is the best thing since sliced bread, but I’ve never had any, nor I know any of the other fruits … I’m quite curious now! Is there any possibility in the near future of doing a sports related blog. The santol ("Sandoricum koetjape", syn. You’ll notice that most of them use the English name for the sport. List of fruit names (Multilingual names for fruits). But when I wrote previous comment, I specified the other e-mail (just I have more then one e-mail address … for different days of the week…:-))) Sorry for the disorientation )) Now I put the e-mail which you will definately find in your subscribers base. The santol fruits are shape globose to oblate, with size about 1 1/2 to 3 inch (4 to 7.5 cm) wide. Usage Frequency: 2 The next time I use it I will amaze them by saying this is a mango or as you say in Sri Lanka amba. Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2018-10-16 Ok then, last section folks, buckle up. The smell doesn’t bother you so much? Quality: juice which have to be an acquired taste! Yes, lo∙ku means “big” and po∙di means “small”. I guess the same goes for the expression “my ass” :). Inside the santol fruit there is a white juicy tissue approximately 3 to 5 brown seeds. Quality: Currently longan fruits are grown in southern state of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Quality: I love fruits and I am amazed to learn how many fruits there are in Sri Lanka. While I was travelling by mini vans, the fellow passengers helped me with interpretation when paying my fare and some of the drivers spoke to me in English. Color? By the way, I got the idea for this “Fruits in Sinhala” post thanks to 2 readers of this blog, Letran and Shaggy. But for now, just know that I feel bad to say I can’t help you. That’s funny you mention the salt, pepper, and chilli. But I agree it’s confusing and have changed the above to “ripe jackfruit” (with of course due to credit to you :) ). There’s a lot to get through so I won’t be talking about less important stuff like my annoying Inner-Voice (although I assure you, that mofo kept circling my desk right until I was done writing this). Reference: Wikipedia, Last Update: 2011-10-23 Very good effort and interesting list of fruits. Take ambarella, guava, wood-apple and a few others that are very sweet when ripe but more sour when raw. I’d love to see their surprised smiling faces! please keep on updating many verbs and phrases with all tenses. You can checkout the following 2 blog posts I have done: Hi Dilshan, thanks for forwarding me to these 2 blog posts. Well, I reconnect my readers with weird looking fruits they saw in N.E. I’ll have a think about it and if I stumble upon a better way to explain it (I know I’ve messed it up above), I’ll reply to this comment. Hope you enjoyed this post. i am learning not only sinhala but also standard English in your best site. Probably a cousin or something. The next section goes into grammar so if you’ve read this far, you might want to first take a short break first and do some stretching or something. One fruit that I could not get is Wood Apple. Longan fruit is sweet and juicy just like other fruits of soapberry family, lychee and rambutan. I absolutely love your blog^^. (8) A tree yielding a sour fruit, sometimes called country gooseberry. Orange fruit benefits in Tamil, Orange palam nanmaigal in Tamil, Kamala orange benefits in Tamil, Orange fruit uses in Tamil. What is name of lobulated fruit in found in Sri Lanka, with a citrusy taste that is similar to Magasteen fruit ? I appreciate it very much. Usage Frequency: 1 By continuing to visit this site you agree to our use of cookies. I think I just got MARRIED!”: The Wedding Pics Of Mr. Lazy & Mrs. Smart, 39 Fruits in Sinhala… And I Bet You’ve NEVER Even Heard Of Some Of Them, Eating & Drinking In Sinhala – Part 1: Food, Drinks, & Other General Words, I love you in Sinhala & 7 more romantic lines to annoy your boyfriend, Ma∙mȧ vs Ma∙tȧ – Part 3: With Action Verbs That Use “To”, Lazy But Smart Summary: Ma∙mȧ vs Ma∙tȧ – Part 1 & 2, Numbers in Sinhala – Part 2: Giving Your Phone Number. 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