Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9.7
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9.7
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565 *a.*—Mr. Edwardes (*op. cit.* p. 5) derives **Mazagong** from Skt. *matsya-grāma*, “fish-village,” due to “the pungent odour of the fish, which its earliest inhabitants caught, dried and ate.”