Kolombo

300px|thumb|right|Harbour of Colombo in 1992
Colombo ya kasance shine babban birnin zartarwar da shari'a  kuma birni mafi girma na kasar Sri Lanka ta yawan jama'a. Colombo". Collins English Dictionary (13th ed.). HarperCollins. 2018. ISBN 978-0-008-28437-4.Dangane da Cibiyar Brookings, yankin babban birni na Colombo yana da yawan jama'a kimanin 5.6 miliyan,Colombo". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2020.     da 752,993  a cikin Municipality Kumarage A, Amal (1 November 2007). "Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure and Services on Urban Poverty and Land Development in Colombo, Sri Lanka" (PDF). Global Urban Development Volume 3 Issue 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2015."The 10 Traits of Globally Fluent Metro Areas" (PDF). 2013. Brookings Institution. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015. "Colombo: The Heartbeat of Sri Lanka/ Metro Colombo Urban Development Project". The World Bank. 21 March 2013. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015."Turning Sri Lanka's Urban Vision into Policy and Action" (PDF). UN Habitat. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.Ita ce cibiyar hada-hadar kudi ta tsibirin kuma wurin yawon bude ido.  Yana kan gabar yammacin tsibirin tsibirin kuma kusa da yankin Greater Colombo wanda ya hada da Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, babban birnin majalisa na Sri Lanka, da Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia . Ana kiran Colombo a matsayin babban birni tun lokacin da Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. Ita ce kanta a cikin birnin Colombo. Har ila yau, shi ne babban birnin gudanarwar na Lardin Yamma kuma babban birnin gundumar Colombo . "Colombo, The Famous Business Hub of Sri Lanka – Stories & Advice". Archived from the original on 20 December 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.Colombo birni ne mai cike da al'ajabi tare da cakuda rayuwar zamani, gine-ginen mulkin mallaka da abubuwan tarihi.Jayewarden. "How Colombo Derived its Name". Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 18 January 2007. 

Saboda babban tashar jiragen ruwa da kuma matsayinta na dabarun kasuwanci tare da hanyoyin kasuwancin teku na Gabas-Yamma, Colombo sananne ne ga tsoffin 'yan kasuwa shekaru 2,000 da suka gabata. An mai da  tsibirin lokacin da aka ba da Sri Lanka ga daular Biritaniya a cikin 1815,  kuma matsayinsa na babban birni ya kasance lokacin da al'ummar ta sami 'yancin kai a 1948. History of Colombo". Archived from the original on 2 December 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2007.A cikin 1978, lokacin da aka tura ayyukan gudanarwa zuwa Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Colombo an sanya shi a matsayin babban birnin kasuwanci na Sri Lanka.

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Sunan 'Colombo', wanda masu bincike na Portuguese suka fara gabatar da shi a cikin 1505, an yi imanin cewa ya samo asali ne daga sunan Sinhala na gargajiya ಕ್ಲ್ನ್ನ್ತ್, ಕ್ಲ್ಲು ಮ್ಲು ಮ್ಲಲಲ್ ಕಲಲ್ಲಲ್ಲ್ಲಲಲ್ಲಾ. kogin Kelani”.Colombo – then and now". Padma Edirisinghe. The Sunday Observer. 14 February 2004. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007.

Wani imani kuma shi ne sunan ya samo asali ne daga sunan Sinhala Kola-amba-thota wanda ke nufin 'Harbour mai ganyaye/koren mangwaro'.World Executive Colombo Hotels and City Guide Archived 2016-03-02 at the Wayback Machine Wannan ya zo daidai da tarihin Robert Knox na tsibirin yayin da yake fursuna a Kandy. Ya rubuta cewa "A Yamma, Birnin Columbo, wanda ake kira daga Itace 'yan asalin ƙasar suna kiran Ambo, (wanda ke ɗauke da Mango-fruit) yana girma a wannan wuri; amma wannan ba ya haifar da 'ya'ya, sai kawai ganye, wanda a cikin Harshensu kola sannan kuma suka kira Tree Colambo: wanda Kiristoci don girmama Christopher Columbus ya juya zuwa Columbo."

Marubucin nahawu na Sinhala mafi dadewa, Sidatsangarava, da aka rubuta a karni na 13 ya rubuta game da wani nau'in kalmomi waɗanda ke na farkon Sinhala kaɗai. Ya jera naramba (don gani) da kolamba (fort ko tashar ruwa) kamar yadda aka samo daga harshen Vedda na asali. Kolamba na iya zama tushen sunan babban birnin kasuwanci Colombo.Indrapala, Karthigesu (2007). The evolution of an ethnic identity: The Tamils in Sri Lanka C. 300 BCE to C. 1200 CE. Colombo: Vijitha Yapa. p. 70. ISBN 978-955-1266-72-1.Gair, James (1998). Studies in South Asian Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-19-509521-0.

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