[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) › c10.309 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.309 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.309 - **Language:** English ### [c10.309](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.309) 1566.—“The King of Cochin . . . hath a great number of gentlemen which he calleth Amocchi, and some are called Nairi: these two sorts of men esteem not their lives anything, so that it may be for the honour of their King.”—M. Cæsar Frederike in Purchas, ii. 1708. \[See Logan, Man. Malabar, i. 138.\] - [Previous: c10.308](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.308) - [Next: c10.310](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.310) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.309](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.309) · Pramāṇa