[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) › c10.15805 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15805 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15805 - **Language:** English ### [c10.15805](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15805) WINTER, \*s.\* This term is constantly applied by the old writers to the rainy season, a usage now quite unknown to Anglo-Indians. It may have originated in the fact that winter is in many parts of the Mediterranean coast so frequently a season of rain, whilst rain is rare in summer. Compare the fact that \*shitā\* in Arabic is indifferently ‘winter,’ or ‘rain’; the winter season being the rainy season. \*Shitā\* is the same word that appears in Canticles ii. 11: "The winter (\*sethāv\*) is past, the rain is over and gone." - [Previous: c10.15804](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15804) - [Next: c10.15806](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15806) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) ## Cites (1) - [שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.he.bible.song-of-songs) — Hebrew --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15805](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15805) · Pramāṇa