Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9066
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9066
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c. 1200.—"Some maintain that this plant ('urāk al-ṣābaghīn) is the small kurkum (turmeric), and others that it is mamīrān. . . The kurkum is brought to us from India. . . The mamīrān is imported from China, and has the same properties as kurkum."—Ibn Baithar, ii. 186-188.