[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) › c10.158 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.158 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.158 - **Language:** English ### [c10.158](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.158) ALCOVE, s. This English word comes to us through the Span. \*alcova\* and Fr. \*alcove\* (old Fr. \*aucube\*), from Ar. \*al-kubbah\*, applied first to a kind of tent (so in Hebr. Numbers xxv. 8) and then to a vaulted building or recess. An edifice of Saracenic c— - [Previous: c10.157](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.157) - [Next: c10.159](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.159) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) ## Linked texts (1) - [בְּמִדְבַּר](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.he.bible.numbers) — Hebrew --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.158](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.158) · Pramāṇa