[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) › c10.699 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.699 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.699 - **Language:** English ### [c10.699](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.699) Also that Barcelore is a Port, corruption of \*Basrūr\* \[the Canarese \*Basarūru\*, ‘the town of the waved-leaf fig tree’ (Mad. Adm. Man. \*Gloss\*, s.v.)\] It must have stood immediately below the ‘Barsilur Peak’ of the Admiralty charts, and was apparently identical with, or near to, the place called Seroor in Scott’s Map of the Madras Presidency, in about lat. 13° 55′. \[See Stuart, \*ibid.\* ii. 242. Seroor is perhaps the \*Shirūr\* of Mr Stuart (\*ibid.\* p. 243).\] - [Previous: c10.698](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.698) - [Next: c10.700](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.700) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.699](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.699) · Pramāṇa