[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) › c10.15924 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15924 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15924 - **Language:** English ### [c10.15924](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15924) “. . . “I wrote him a letter to tell him . . . that, please God, in a short time the imperial fleet would come from Egypt to the \*Sāmari\*, and deliver the country from the hands of the infidels.”—\*Sidi ‘Ali\*, p. 83. \[Vambéry, who in his translation betrays a remarkable ignorance of Indian geography, speaks (p. 24) of “\*Samiri\*, the ruler of Calcutta, by which he means Calicut.”\] - [Previous: c10.15923](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15923) - [Next: c10.15925](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15925) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15924](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15924) · Pramāṇa