[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) › c10.13004 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.13004 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.13004 - **Language:** English ### [c10.13004](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.13004) \*\*SAMBOOK\*\*, s. Ar. \*sanbuk\*; and \*sunbūk\* (there is a Skt. word \*śambūka\*, ‘a bivalve shell, but we are unable to throw any light on any possible transfer); a kind of small vessel formerly used in Western India and still on the Arabian coast. \[See \*Bombay Gazetteer\*, xiii. Pt. ii. 470.\] It is smaller than the \*bagalā\* (see \*\*BUGGALOW\*\*), and is chiefly used to communicate between a roadstead and the shore, or to go inside the reefs. Burton renders the word ‘a foyst,’ which is properly a smaller kind of galley. See description in the last but one quotation below. - [Previous: c10.13003](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.13003) - [Next: c10.13005](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.13005) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.13004](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.13004) · Pramāṇa