[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) › c10.697 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.697 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.697 - **Language:** English ### [c10.697](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.697) \*\*BABOON\*\*, s. This, no doubt, comes to us through the Ital. \*babuino\*; but it is probable that the latter word is a corruption of Pers. \*maimūn\* \[‘the auspicious one’\], and then applied by way of euphemism or irony to the baboon or monkey. It also occurs in Ital. under the more direct form of \*maimone\* in \*gatto-maimone\*, ‘cat-monkey,’ or rather ‘monkey-cat.’ \[The \*N.E.D.\* leaves the origin of the word doubtful, and does not discuss this among other suggested derivations.\] - [Previous: c10.696](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.696) - [Next: c10.698](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.698) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.697](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.697) · Pramāṇa