[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) › c10.94 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.94 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.94 - **Language:** English ### [c10.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.94) "The feathers known as Marabou or Comercolly feathers, and sold in Calcutta, are the tail-coverts of this, and the \*Lept. Javanica\*, another and smaller species" (\*Jerdon\*). The name \*marabout\* (from the Ar. \*murābit\*, 'quiet,' and thence 'a hermit,' through the Port. \*marabuto\*) seems to have been given to the bird in Africa on like reason to that of adjutant in India. \[Comercolly, properly Kumārkhāli, is a town in the Nadiya District, Bengal. See \*Balfour, Cycl.\* i. 1082.\] - [Previous: c10.93](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.93) - [Next: c10.95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.95) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.94) · Pramāṇa