[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) › c10.543 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.543 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.543 - **Language:** English ### [c10.543](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.543) \*\*ARSENAL\*\*, s. An old and ingenious etymology of this word is \*arx navalis\*. But it is really Arabic. Hyde derives it from \*tars-khānah\*, 'domus terroris,' contracted into \*tarsānah\*, the form (as he says) used at Constantinople (\*Syntagma Dissert.\*, i. 100). But it is really the Ar. \*dār-al-ṣinā'a\*, 'domus artificii,' as the quotations from Mas'ūdī clearly show. The old Ital. forms \*darsena\*, \*darsinale\* corroborate this, and the Sp. \*ataraçana\*, which is rendered in Ar. by Pedro de Alcala, quoted by Dozy, as \*dār a cināa\*.—(See details in Dozy, \*Oosterlingen\*, 16-18.) - [Previous: c10.542](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.542) - [Next: c10.544](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.544) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.543](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.543) · Pramāṇa