Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.188
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.188
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c. 1590.—"The improvement is visible . . . secondly in the Safid Alchahs also called Tarhdārs . . . "—*Āīn*, i. 91. (Blochmann says: "Alchah or Alāchah, any kind of corded stuff. Tarhdār means corded.")