[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) › c10.9245 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9245 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9245 - **Language:** English ### [c10.9245](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9245) 1673.—"Je vis un vase d'une certaine terre verte qui vient des Indes, dont les Turcs . . . font un grand estime, et qu'ils acheptent bien cher à cause de la propriété qu'elle a de se rompre à la présence du poison. . . . Ceste terre se nomme \*Merdebani\*."—\*Journal d'Ant. Galland\*, ii. 110. - [Previous: c10.9244](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9244) - [Next: c10.9246](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9246) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9245](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9245) · Pramāṇa