Tam: வவுனியா vavuṉiyā, Sin: වවුනියාව vavuniyāva
‘End of the Forest’ NP, Sri Lanka.
From Sin: vanya/vana, ‘forest’; and nimawa, ‘end, boundary, limit’.
Vavuniya sits on the edge of the Vanni, a forest which covers most of the Northern Province, creating a boundary between Tamil kingdoms in the north and Sinhala kingdoms further south.
Vavuniya City Vaijayanth