Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.544
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.544
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A.D. 943-4.—"At this day in the year of the Hijra 332, Rhodes (Rodas) is an arsenal (*dār-ṣinā'a*) where the Greeks build their war-vessels."—Mas'ūdī, ii. 423. And again "*dār-ṣinā'at al marākib*," 'an arsenal of ships,' iii. 67.