Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9084

1623.—“. . . boats which they call Maneive, going with 20 or 24 Oars.”—P. della Valle, Hak. Soc. ii. 211; Mancina in ii. 217.