Editing Ophir (section)

====Sri Lanka====
The 10th-century lexicographer [[David ben Abraham al-Fasi]] identified Ophir with Serendip, the old Persian name for [[Sri Lanka]] (aka Ceylon).<ref>Solomon Skoss (ed.), ''The Hebrew-Arabic Dictionary of the Bible, Known as `Kitāb Jāmiʿ al-Alfāẓ` (Agron) of David ben Abraham al-Fasi'', Yale University Press: New Haven 1936, vol. 1, p. 46 (Hebrew)</ref> Moreover, as mentioned above, ''A Dictionary of the Bible'' by [[Sir William Smith]]<ref name="Smith">Smith, William, ''A dictionary of the Bible'', Hurd and Houghton, 1863 (1870), pp.1441</ref> notes the Hebrew word for parrot ''Thukki'', derived from the [[Classical Tamil]] for peacock ''Thogkai'' or [[Sinhala language|Sinhalese]] "tokei".<ref name="Smith's Bible Dictionary">{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/eastons-bible-dictionary/peacock.html|title=Peacock - Easton's Bible Dictionary Online|website=Bible Study Tools}}</ref>