[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) › c10.16016 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.16016 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.16016 - **Language:** English ### [c10.16016](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.16016) If the name is to be derived from India, the term in Sleeman’s Vocabulary seems a more probable origin than the others mentioned here. But is it not more likely that \*zingari\*, like Gipsy and Bohemian, would be a name given \*ab extra\* on their appearing in the West, and not carried with them from Asia? - [Previous: c10.16015](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.16015) - [Next: c10.16017](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.16017) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.16016](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.16016) · Pramāṇa