石叻

石叻

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (石叻)		石	叻
alternative forms		實叻／实叻 𡁃叻 實辣／实辣

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay selat (“strait”). Singapore was the capital of Straits Settlements as a British colony.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Shílè

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄌㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sek⁶ lik¹, sek⁶ lak⁶, sek⁶ nit¹
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): Si̍t-la̍t

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sig⁸ lag⁸ / sêg⁸ lag⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Shílè
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄌㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Shíhlè
    • Wade–Giles: Shih²-lê⁴
    • Yale: Shŕ-lè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shyrleh
    • Palladius: Шилэ (Šilɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ lɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sek⁶ lik¹, sek⁶ lak⁶, sek⁶ nit¹
    • Yale: sehk līk, sehk lahk, sehk nīt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sek⁹ lik⁷, sek⁹ lak⁹, sek⁹ nit⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: ség⁶ lig¹, ség⁶ leg⁶, ség⁶ nid¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛːk̚² lɪk̚⁵/, /sɛːk̚² lɐk̚²/, /sɛːk̚² niːt̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Si̍t-la̍t
    • Tâi-lô: Si̍t-la̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sidlat
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɕit̚⁴⁻³² lat̚⁴/
    • IPA (Singapore): /ɕit̚⁴³⁻²¹ lat̚⁴³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sig⁸ lag⁸ / sêg⁸ lag⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: si̍k la̍k / se̍k la̍k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sik̚⁴⁻² lak̚⁴/, /sek̚⁴⁻² lak̚⁴/

Note: sêg8 lag8 - Jieyang.

Proper noun

石叻

1. (regional, dated) Singapore

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 新加坡 (“Singapore”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		新加坡
Mandarin	Taiwan	新加坡
	Malaysia	新加坡, 新國
	Singapore	新加坡, 星洲 nickname, 獅城 nickname, 石叻 dated, 石叻埠 dated, 叻埠 dated
Cantonese	Guangzhou	星加坡
	Hong Kong	新加坡, 星加坡, 星國, 星洲 nickname, 叻埠 dated
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	星加坡
	Penang (Guangfu)	星加坡
	Singapore (Guangfu)	星加坡
Min Nan	Xiamen	新加坡, 石叻 dated
	Quanzhou	新加坡
	Zhangzhou	新加坡
	Penang (Hokkien)	新加坡
	Singapore (Hokkien)	新加坡, 獅城, 石叻 dated
	Manila (Hokkien)	新加坡
	Jieyang	石叻 dated, 叻埠 dated
	Singapore (Teochew)	新加坡
	Singapore (Hainanese)	新加坡
Wu	Shanghai	新加坡

References

• Duffus, William (1883), “Singapore”, in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, Swatow: English Presbyterian Mission Press, page 245