Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.25
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.25
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**ABYSSINIA**, n.p. This geographical name is a 16-century Latinisation of the Arabic *Habash*, through the Portuguese *Abex*, bearing much the same pronunciation, minus the aspirate. [See HUBSHEE.]