[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) › c6.50 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c6.50 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c6.50 - **Language:** English ### [c6.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.50) \*Mangrove\*, John Crawfurd tells us, has been adopted from the Malay \*manggi-manggi\*, applied to trees of the genus \*Rhizophora\*. But we learn from Oviedo, writing early in the sixteenth century, that the name \*mangle\* was applied by the natives of the Spanish Main to trees of the same, or a kindred genus, on the coast of S. America, which \*mangle\* is undoubtedly the parent of the French \*manglier\*, and not improbably therefore of the English form \*mangrove\*.\* - [Previous: c6.49](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.49) - [Next: c6.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.51) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.50) · Pramāṇa