Translation for "taprobane" to spanish
Taprobane
  • taprobana
Translation examples
taprobana
They went up from Taprobane.
Ellos se pasaron de Taprobane.
At Taprobane right?
En Taprobane, ¿no?
The Egyptians know how to get to Taprobane.
Los egipcios saben cómo llegar a Taprobana.
“After leaving him she worked at the Mount Lavinia Hotel and then the Grand Oriental Hotel, that’s called the Taprobane now.
Después de dejarlo, tu madre se puso a trabajar en el Hotel Mount Lavinia y más tarde en el Grand Oriental, que ahora es el Taprobane.
They took refuge with King Aretas in the Arab country of Nabataea, enormously rich because of its trade with the Malabar coast of India and the island of Taprobane.
Les dio refugio el rey Aretas del país árabe de Nabatea, muy rico gracias al comercio con la costa malabar de la India y la isla de Taprobane.
Then as his name became known, he discovered a source of pearls from the seas around India and the pear-shaped island of Taprobane just below India.
Luego, conforme fue aumentando su fama, descubrió mercados en los mares de la India y en la isla en forma de pera de Taprobana, al sur de la India.
"Oh?" asked Crassus, his gaze fixed on the extortionate price chalked on a wooden card propped up against a glazed ceramic jar of peppercorns from Taprobane.
–¿Ah, sí? – repuso Craso con la mirada fija en el exorbitante precio que estaba escrito con tiza en una tabla apoyada contra un tarro de cerámica vidriada de pimienta de Taprobane-.
It was heavily populated and rich, involved in all sorts of trade with ships arriving from everywhere, many from a gigantic island to the east called Taprobane, which was said to be as big as all India.
Era ésta populosa y rica, de un intenso comercio, con naves que llegaban de todas partes, muchas de ellas de una enorme isla situada a levante que se llamaba Taprobane y que se decía era, por sí sola, tan grande como la India.
And so its name changed, as well as its shape—Serendip, Ratnapida (“island of gems”), Taprobane, Zeloan, Zeilan, Seyllan, Ceilon, and Ceylon—the wife of many marriages, courted by invaders who stepped ashore and claimed everything with the power of their sword or bible or language.
De modo que su nombre cambió, al igual que su forma —Serendip, Ratnapida («isla de las piedras preciosas»), Taprobane, Zeloan, Zeilan, Seyllan, Ceilon y Ceilán—, la novia de muchas bodas, cortejada por los invasores que desembarcaron y lo reivindicaron todo con el poder de su espada o de su biblia o de su lengua.
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