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Meaning & History
From the historical name of the British crown colony (present-day Sri Lanka). Ceylon was translated as such into English from Ceilão, the name the Portuguese Empire used for the island, which had been derived from Sanskrit Siṃhaladvīpaḥ. The Sanskrit word had in earlier centuries been translated into Arabic and Persian as Sarandīb, which is the origin of the English word "serendipity."