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Singapore means "Lion city".
Singapore means "Lion city". is a Country Fact in the Country Facts category.
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292 days ago
Pearly
"Singa" is a Malay word that means "lion" the original name is Singapura and was part of Malaysia
280 days ago
Anonymous
singam is tamil word.. it means lion
261 days ago
Jonny
I am from Singapore, and let me correct this: Singapore was originally named Singapura, where Singa means "lion" and Pura means "pretend". So unfortunately, our founder who named this country, saw an animal that looked like a lion. Perhaps he saw a tiger, cos there were no lions in Southeast Asia at that time.
192 days ago
hhhhjjjjkkkkllll
above,,,JONNY i think you are wrong!because i am also from singapore and our founder has seen a leaopard
33 days ago
AnonymousSingaporean
hhhhjjjkkkklll you didn't study Social Studies? Sang Nila Utama thought he saw a animal on this island and he asked his chief minister what that was. So he said Singa(Lion in malay) and they named it Singapura. There's more, the storm, etc. Yes Tamil is my 2nd language, and Singam is lion in tamil. But singa is malay. Before this, our country was called Temasek(Sea town[i dont know what language that came from i forgot])