Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.369
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.369
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The term ananas has been Arabized, among the Indian pharmacists at least, as *‘ain-un-nās* ‘the eye of man’; in Burmese *nan-na-si*, and in Singhalese and Tamil as *annāsi* (see *Moodeen Sheriff*).