Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12975

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**SALLABAD**, s. This word, now quite obsolete, occurs frequently in the early records of English settlements in India, for the customary or prescriptive exactions of the native Governments, and for native prescriptive claims in general. It is a word of Mahratti development, *salábád*, 'perennial,' applied to permanent collections or charges; apparently a factitious word from Pers. *sál*, 'year,' and Ar. *ábád*, 'ages.'

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