Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9013

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1511.—“This Paremiçura gave the name of Malaca to the new colony, because in the language of Java, when a man of Palimbão flees away they call him Malay o. . . Others say that it was called Malaca because of the number of people who came there from one part and the other in so short a space of time, for the word Malaca also signifies to meet. . . Of these two opinions let each one accept that which he thinks to be the best, for this is the truth of the matter.”—Commentaries of Alboquerque, E.T. by Birch, iii. 76-77.