Serendib

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 299 words | Copyright

Serendib. An old name for Śri Lankā. It was derived from the Arab. version of the Skt. name Sinhala-dvipa (Pāli, Sihala-dvipa). The name was used during the Roman Empire. From it, Horace Walpole coined the word, ‘serendipity’, in The Three Princes of Serendib (1754).

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