[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) › c10.16015 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.16015 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.16015 - **Language:** English ### [c10.16015](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.16015) These are the Chāngars of whom Mr. Ibbetson (\*Panjab Ethnog.\* 308) gives an account. A full description of them has been given by Dr. G. W. Leitner (\*A Sketch of the Changars and of their Dialect\*, Lahore, 1880), in which he shows reason to doubt any connection between them and the \*Zingari\*. De Goeje (\*Contributions to the Hist. of the Gypsies\*) regards that people as the Indian \*Zott\* (\*i.e.\* Jatt of Sind). He suggests as possible origins of the name first \*shikārī\* (see SHIKAREE), and then Pers. \*changī\*, ‘harper,’ from which a plural \*changān\* actually occurs in Lane’s \*Arabian Nights\*, iii. 730, note 22. \[These are the Al-Jink, male dancers (see Burton, \*Ar. Nights\*, viii. 18).\] - [Previous: c10.16014](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.16014) - [Next: c10.16016](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.16016) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.16015](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.16015) · Pramāṇa