Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9156

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c. 1334.—"The mango tree (*'anba*) resembles an orange-tree, but is larger and more leafy; no other tree gives so much shade, but this shade is unwholesome, and whoever sleeps under it gets fever."—*Ibn Batuta*, iii. 125. At ii. 185 he writes *'anbā*. The same charge is made against the tamarind; see *Burton, Ar. Nights*, iii. 81.