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අමතර අවධානයට: World සහ ලෝකය

ඉංග්‍රීසි

සිංහල විකිපීඩියාව සතුව මෙයට අදාළ ලිපියක් ඇත:

world

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වෙනත් ආකාර

vurld (Bermuda)

නිරුක්තිය

From මධ්‍යකාලීන ඉංග්‍රීසි world, weoreld, from පුරාතන ඉංග්‍රීසි weorold (“world”), from ප්‍රොටෝ-බටහිර ජර්මානු *weraldi, from ප්‍රොටෝ-ජර්මානු *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) +‎ eld (“age”).

Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), ඕලන්ද wereld (“world”), Low German Werld (“world”), ජර්මානු Welt (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål verden (“world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), ස්වීඩන් värld (“world”), අයිස්ලන්ත veröld (“the world”).

උච්චාරණය

enPR: wûrld
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɜːld/
- (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /wɜɹld/, [wɝɫd]
  - ඕඩියෝ (non-native): (file)
  - ඕඩියෝ (Canada): (file)
- (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /wɵːld/, [wɵːɯ̯d̥]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ld
Homophones: whirled (with both the wine–whine merger and fern–fir–fur merger); whorled (with both mergers, Received Pronunciation only)

නාමපදය

සිංහල විකිපීඩියාව සතුව මෙයට අදාළ ලිපියක් ඇත:

world

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world (countable and uncountable, බහුවචන worlds)

(with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general.
In retrospect, the process of economic globalization has meant the end of the world as we knew it.
(මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

There will always be lovers, till the world’s end.
(මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

Synonym: (proper noun with alternative capitalization) World
(with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
The period immediately following my divorce seemed like the end of my world.
(මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

He was my world! [said of a slain companion]
(මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
  The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed. As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
  (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 9, in The China Governess‎^[1]:
  Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.
  (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)
- 2013 ජූනි 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
  America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
  (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)
(metonymically, with "the") A majority of people.
Running after God is the only life worth living. Even though the world believes that living for God is boring, we believe that there is nothing more exciting.
The Universe.
(uncountable, with "the") The Earth.
Synonyms: the earth, Earth, the globe, God's green earth, Sol III

People are dying of starvation all over the world.
(මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

“As the world turns, we know the bleakness of winter, the promise of spring, the fullness of summer and the harvest of autumn–the cycle of life is complete.” - quotation attributed to Irna Phillips.
- සැකිල්ල:RQ:Hough Purchase Price
- 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206-7:
  Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close […] above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
  (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
  She says the Third Pole is one of the world’s largest sources of fresh drinking water.
(countable) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
Our mission is to travel the galaxy and find new worlds.
(මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)
- 1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 118:
  Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.
  (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)
- 2007 September 27, Marc Rayman (interviewee), “NASA's Ion-Drive Asteroid Hunter Lifts Off”, National Public Radio:
  I think many people think of asteroids as kind of little chips of rock. But the places that Dawn is going to really are more like worlds.
1. (by extension) Any other astronomical body which may be inhabitable, such as a natural satellite.
A very large extent of country.
the New World
(fiction) A realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
the world of Narnia; the Wizarding World of Harry Potter; a zombie world
An individual or group perspective or social setting.
Synonym: circle

In the world of boxing, good diet is all-important.
(මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

Welcome to my world.
- 2013 ජූනි 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
  According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
  (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)
(computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
(video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
Have you reached the boss at the end of the ice world?

There's a hidden warp to the next world down this pipe.
(tarot) The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
(informal, singular or plural, followed by "of") A great amount.
Taking a break from work seems to have done her a world of good.

You're going to be in a world of trouble when your family finds out.

That new wallpaper has made worlds of difference downstairs.
(මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

This movie isn't even billed as a comedy, but it's worlds funnier than the comedy I saw last month.
(මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)
(archaic) Age, era.
- සැකිල්ල:RQ:Douay Bible