Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.760
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.760
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1510.—“If the merchandise about which they treat be spices, they deal by the *bahar*, which *bahar* weighs three of our *cantari*.”—*Varthema*, p. 170.