Sinhala idioms (, rà «á¸Âi) and colloquial expressions that are widely used to communicate figuratively, as with any other developed language. This page also contains a list of old and popular Sinhala proverbs, which are known as prastàpiruḷu () in Sinhala. Most of these phrases and translations can be found in the book Atëta VÃÂkya Dëpaniya (), and in the Dictionary of the Proverbs of the Sinhalese.