Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15935
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15935
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1814.—“The King of Calicut was, in the Malabar language, called Samory, or Zamorine, that is to say, God on the earth.”—*Forbes*, *Or. Mem.* 2nd ed. i. 263. [See quotation above from Varthema.]