[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) › c10.9066 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c10.9066](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9066) 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. - [Previous: c10.9065](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9065) - [Next: c10.9067](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9067) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9066](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9066) · Pramāṇa