[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) › c9 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9: Corrigenda Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9 - **Language:** English ### Corrigenda ### [c9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.1) PAGE. COL. 32 \*b.\*—\*\*Apollo Bunder.\*\* Mr. S. M. Edwardes (\*History of Bombay, Town and Island, Census Report, 1901\*, p. 17) derives this name from ‘Pallav Bandar,’ ‘the Harbour of Clustering Shoots.’ ### [c9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.2) 274 \*a.\*—\*\*Crease.\*\* 1817. “the Portuguese commander requested permission to see the Cross which Janiere wore. . . .”—\*Rev. R. Fellowes, History of Ceylon\*, chap. v. quoted in 9 ser. \*N. & Q.\* I. 85. ### [c9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.3) 276 \*b.\*—For “Porus” read “Portus.” ### [c9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.4) 380 \*b.\*—For “It is probable that what that geographer . . .” read “It is probable from what . . .” ### [c9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.5) 499 \*b.\*—The reference to \*\*Bao\*\* was accidentally omitted. The word is Peguan \*bā\* (pronounced \*bā-a\*), “a monastery.” The quotation from Sangermano (p. 88) runs : “There is not any village, however small, that has not one or more large wooden houses, which are a species of convent, by the Portuguese in India called \*\*Bao\*\*.” ### [c9.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.6) 511 \*a.\*—For “\*\*Adawlvt\*\*” read “\*\*Adawlat\*\*.” ### [c9.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.7) 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.” ### [c9.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.8) 655 \*b.\*—For “Steven’s” read “Stevens’.” ### [c9.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.9) 678 \*a.\*—Mr. Edwardes (\*op. cit.\* p. 15) derives \*\*Parell\*\* from \*padel\*, “the Tree-Trumpet Flower” (\*Bignonia suaveolens\*). ### [c9.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.10) 816 \*a.\*—For “\*shā-bāsh\*” read “\*shāh-bāsh\*.” ### [c9.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.11) 858 \*b.\*—For “\*\*Sowar\*\*” read “\*\*Sonar\*\*, a goldsmith.” ### [c9.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.12) 920 \*b.\*—\*\*Tiffin\*\* add : 1784.—“Each temperate day With health glides away, No \*\*Triffings\*\* \* our forenoons profane.” —\*Memoirs of the Late War in Asia, by An Officer of Colonel Baillie’s Detachment\*, ii. \*Appendix\*, p. 293. ### [c9.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.13) 1802.—“I suffered a very large library to be useless whence I might have extracted that which would have been of more service to me than running about to \*\*Tiffins\*\* and noisy parties.”—\*Metcalfe\*, to J. W. Sherer, in Kaye, \*Life of Lord Metcalfe\*, I. 81. ### [c9.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.14) ∗ \[In note “Luncheons.”\] --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9) · Pramāṇa