[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) › c10.9052 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9052 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9052 - **Language:** English ### [c10.9052](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9052) MALUM, s. In a ship with English officers and native crew, the mate is called \*mālum sāhib\*. The word is Ar. \*mu‘allim\*, literally ‘the Instructor,’ and is properly applied to the pilot or sailing-master. The word may be compared, thus used, with our ‘master’ in the Navy. In regard to the first quotation we may observe that \*Nākhuda\* (see NACODA) is, rather than \*Mu‘allim\*, ‘the captain’; though its proper meaning is the owner of the ship; the two capacities of owner and skipper being doubtless often combined. The distinction of \*Mu‘allim\* from \*Nākhuda\* accounts for the former title being assigned to the mate. - [Previous: c10.9051](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9051) - [Next: c10.9053](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9053) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9052](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9052) · Pramāṇa