Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15919

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c10.15919

1510.—“Now I will speak of the King here in Calicut, because he is the most important King of all those before mentioned, and is called *Samory*, which in the Pagan language means God on earth.”—*Varthema*, 134. The traveller confounds the word with *tamburān*, which does mean ‘Lord.’ [Forbes (see below) makes the same mistake.]

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