Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15916
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15916
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c. 1343.—“The sultan is a Kāfir called the *Sāmari*. . . When the time of our departure for China came, the sultan, the *Sāmari* equipped for us one of the 13 junks which were lying in the port of Calicut.”—*Ibn Batuta*, iv. 89-94.