සම්ප්රදාය
“සම්ප්රදාය” (sampradāya) — tradition in Sinhala. Noun, level A2. About what passes from generation to generation. A single custom is the neighbouring cāritraya — one concrete practice. In a live sentence: “මේක අපේ පරණ සම්ප්රදාය” — This is our old tradition. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ස, ම, ්, ප, ්, ර, ද, ා, ය. A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | සම්ප්රදාය |
| Read in Latin letters | sampradāya |
| Translation | tradition |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
- සම්ප්රදායsampradāyatradition
Why it looks that way
About what passes from generation to generation. A single custom is the neighbouring cāritraya — one concrete practice
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- මේක අපේ පරණ සම්ප්රදායmēka apē paraṇa sampradāyaThis is our old tradition
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “tradition” in Sinhala?
«සම්ප්රදාය», read “sampradāya”. In a live sentence: “මේක අපේ පරණ සම්ප්රදාය” — This is our old tradition. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ස, ම, ්, ප, ්, ර, ද, ා, ය.
How is “සම්ප්රදාය” written in Latin letters?
sampradāya. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
About what passes from generation to generation. A single custom is the neighbouring cāritraya — one concrete practice. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how it sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.