[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) › c6.48 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c6.48 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c6.48 - **Language:** English ### [c6.48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.48) \*Tank\*, for a reservoir of water, we are apt to derive without hesitation, from \*stagnum\*, whence Sp. \*estanc\*, old Fr. \*estang\*, old Eng. and Lowland Scotch \*stank\*, Port. \*tanque\*, till we find that the word is regarded by the Portuguese themselves as Indian, and that there is excellent testimony to the existence of \*tānkā\* in Guzerat and Rajputana as an indigenous word, and with a plausible Sanskrit etymology. - [Previous: c6.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.47) - [Next: c6.49](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.49) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.48) · Pramāṇa