The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c9.22

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Jaibah. — Blochmann, Āīn, i, 111, N°. 56, and his note 4, says it was a general name for armour. He gives no figure of it. Erskine, “History,” ii, 187, has jaba. Steingass, 356, says it is from the Arabic jubbat, and spells it jubah, a coat of mail, a cuirass, any kind of iron armour. The word is used in the ʿĀlamgīrnāmah, 245, l. 7: — “Tan ba zeb-i-jabah o joshan pairāstah” — “body adorned with the decoration of jabah and joshan.” It is also used in Aḥwāl-ul-Khawāqīn (c. 1147 H.), fol. 164a, in the form jaibah. Some variety of the jaibah is spoken of in the Akbarnāmah, Daftar II, p. 249, line 4 (Lucknow edition), where we are told that a Rajput of distinction in the garrison of Chitor wore a jaibah-i-hazār-mīkhī. Apparently it was covered with small studs or knobs (mīkh).