Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12859
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12859
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“*O.* Some have told me that he was so called because they used to call a Captain by this name; but I afterwards came to know that in fact *saibo* in Arabic means ‘lord.’ . .”—*Garcia*, f. 36.