[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) › c10.234 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.234 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.234 - **Language:** English ### [c10.234](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.234) \*\*ALLYGOLE, ALIGHOL, ALLYGOOL, ALLEEGOLE\*\*, s. H.—P. \*aligol\*, from \*‘ali\* 'lofty, excellent,' Skt. \*gola\*, a troop; a nondescript word used for "irregular foot in the Maratha service, without discipline or regular arms. According to some they are so named from charging in a dense mass and invoking 'Ali, the son-in-law of Mohammed, being chiefly Moham-medans."—(\*Wilson.\*) - [Previous: c10.233](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.233) - [Next: c10.235](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.235) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.234](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.234) · Pramāṇa