Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.796
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.796
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BAIKREE, s. The Bombay name for the Barking-deer. It is Guzarāt bekri; and acc. to Jerdon and [Blandford Mammalia, 533] Mahr. bekra or bekan but this is not in Molesworth’s Dict. [Forsyth (Highlands of C. I., p. 470 gives the Gond and Korku names as Bherki, which may be the original].