[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.114 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.114 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.114 - **Language:** English ### [c10.114](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.114) AGAM, adj. A term applied to certain cloths dyed in some particular way. It is the Ar. \*‘ajam\* (lit. “one who has an impediment or difficulty in speaking Arabic”), a foreigner, and in particular, a Persian. The adj. \*‘ajamī\* thus means “foreign” or “Persian,” and is equivalent to the Greek \*βάρβαρος\* and the Hind. \*mleććha\*. Sir G. Birdwood (\*Rep. on Old Rec.\*, p. 145) quotes from Hieronimo di Santo Stefano (1494-99), “in company with some Armenian and Azami merchants”: and (\*ibid.\*) from Varthema: “It is a country of very great traffic in merchandise, and particularly with the Persians and Azamini, who come so far as there.”\] - [Previous: c10.113](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.113) - [Next: c10.115](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.115) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.114](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.114) · Pramāṇa