Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.625
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.625
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c10.625
**AVADAVAT**, s. Improperly for *Amadavat*. The name given to a certain pretty little cage-bird (*Estrelda amandava*, L. or ‘Red Wax-Bill’) found throughout India, but originally brought to Europe from Aḥmadābād in Guzerat, of which the name is a corruption. We also find Aḥmadābād represented by Madava: as in old maps Astarābād on the Caspian is represented by Strava (see quotation from *Correa* below). [One of the native names for the bird is lāl, ‘ruby,’ which appears in the quota-tion from Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali below.]