[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) › c10.9207 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9207 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9207 - **Language:** English ### [c10.9207](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9207) \*\*MANILLA-MAN\*\*, s. This term is applied to natives of the Philippines, who are often employed on shipboard, and especially furnish the quartermasters (Seacunny, q.v.) in Lascar crews on the China voyage. But Manilla-man seems also, from Wilson, to be used in S. India as a hybrid from Telug. \*manelā vādu\*, ‘an itinerant dealer in coral and gems’; perhaps in this sense, as he says, from Skt. \*mani\*, ‘a jewel,’ but with some blending also of the Port. \*manilha\*, ‘a bracelet.’ (Compare \*\*COBRA-MANILLA\*\*.) - [Previous: c10.9206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9206) - [Next: c10.9208](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9208) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9207](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9207) · Pramāṇa