Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.591

1817.—“In the maritime districts, atap or thatch is made . . . from the leaves of the nipa.”—Raffles, Java, i. 166; [2nd ed. i. 186].