Glossary- arek [Areca Catechu].
- The areca nut.
- arrack [araq].
- A palm tree liquor.
- assammee [asami].
- A dealer or broker.[*]
- aumnooze [perhaps amruda].
- The guava tree.
- baffety [baft].
- A type of woven cloth.
- baharea [bhari].
- A man who works as a carrier.
- bang.
- Cannabis extract.[*]
- bangalo.
- Bungalow, a Bengal-style house, usually single storied.
- banian [Ficus Indica].
- The fig tree.
- Banyan [baniya jati].
- A Hindu merchant caste.
- basleewalla [banri-wala].
- A flute player.
- baudshaw [badshah].
- An Emperor.[*]
- baudshawjoddi [badshah-zadi].
- An Emperor's daughter.[*]
- belton [bell-tent].
- A bell-shaped military tent.
- bestie [bihishti].
- Water carrier.
- Bice [Vaishya varna].
- A merchant caste.
- bowberchee [bawar-chi].
- A cook.
- Brama [Brahma].
- The Hindu God of Creation.
- Bramin, Brahmin [Brahmin varna].
- The highest caste among Hindus.
- buckserria [buxaria].
- A type of soldier recruited near Buxar.[*]
- buckshaw.
- Dried fish, a. k. a. “Bombay Duck.”
- Burkendaws [barq-andaz, lightning thrower].
- A type of Indian infantryman.
- buxey [bakhshi].
- A paymaster.[*]
- cachoonda.
- An astringent.
- Caffres [Kafir].
- A non-Muslim African, originally a tribe's name.[*]
- carcanet.
- An ornamental necklace.
- catchoo [catechu].
- An astringent.
- cawn [khan].
- A title or honorific, meaning Lord.
- ceesoe [siso, Dalbergia Sisso].
- A type of tree.
- charwalley, cherwallee [probably charawaha jati].
- A grass/fodder cutter caste.
- chaumnie [chhaoni].
- A thatched barracks.
- cheeque [chiq].
- A bamboo screen.
- Chemars [Chamar jati].
- A leather-worker caste.
- chilm, hooka.
- Tobacco and the vessel in which it burns.
- chokeedar [chauki-dar].
- A watch-keeper.
- chop [chap].
- A personal seal.[*]
- chopdar [chob-dar].
- A silver staff-bearer.
- chouk [chauk].
- A marketplace.
- chunam.
- Mineral lime.
- circar [sarkar].
- An Indian accountant.
- circarga [perhaps shikar-gah].
- A hunting park.
- codgi [qazi].
- A Muslim judge.
- comedan [komidan].
- An Indian Captain or Commandant.
- consumma [khan-saman, master of supplies].
- A majordomo.
- cooley [coolie].
- A manual laborer.
- coss [kos].
- A measure of distance, about two miles.
- cossid [kasid].
- A foot messenger.[*]
- cowle [qaul].
- A surety or bond.[*]
- dawgah [darogha].
- A superintendent.[*]
- decoyt [dakait].
- A gang robber.[*]
- derawan [darwan].
- A doorkeeper.
- Dewalli [Diwali].
- The Hindu festival of lights.
- divan, diwan [diwan].
- A ruler's levee or audience hall.
- Domerah [Dom jati or tribe].
- A sweeper caste.
- dooley [doli].
- A covered litter or sedan chair.[*]
- durbar [darbar].
- A ruler's court or throne room.
- dustuk [dastak].
- A permit or order.[*]
- English East India Company (1600–1858).
- Officially the United Company of the Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies; a joint stock corporation increasingly, after 1773, under the control of the British Parliament but also, from 1772, an officeholder in the Mughal Empire.
- faquir, faqir.
- Religious ascetic or mendicant, often a Muslim.
- filligrane.
- Filigree work.
- fouzdar [faujdar].
- An Indian police commandant.
- gaut [ghat].
- Waterfront steps.
- ginanah [zenana].
- Women or women's quarters.[*]
- gooldbudthen [gul-budan, rose-bodied].
- A type of cloth.
- goolmores, goulmores [gold muhr].
- A coin worth Rupees 16.
- gouwarrah [gahawara].
- A Dhaka term for taziya, model tombs of Shiite martyrs.
- gullendas [gol-andaz, ball-thrower].
- The artillery or an artilleryman.
- gusseara [ghasiyara].
- A grass cutter.
- hajam [hajjam].
- A barber and surgeon.
- halcarah, halcorah [harkara].
- A man of all work, often a herald or messenger.
- hanpacallie [hand-pakhali].
- A water bag carried by a man instead of a bullock.
- haram [harem].
- Women's quarters, the wives of a man.
- hoakha [huqqa].
- A hooka, water pipe.
- homaldar [amildar, standard-bearer].
- An Indian corporal, more commonly naik.
- hookeburdar [huqqa-bardar].
- A servant who tends a hooka.
- hotteewallie [hathi-wala].
- An elephant keeper.
- howaldar [havildar].
- An Indian sergeant.
- hummum [hamam].
- An Indian or Turkish-style steam bath.
- Jaggernaut [Jagan-nath, Lord of the World].
- The Hindu God Krishna, whose major temple is at Puri, in Orissa.
- jagree [jagri].
- Palm-sap sugar.
- Jair [Jain].
- A religious tradition advocating total nonviolence.
- janissaries.
- Turkish slave-soldiers.
- jati [birth].
- Hindu caste.
- Jats.
- A jati of agriculturalists.
- jemadar, jemmautdar [jam'dar].
- A leader of a body of men or Indian ensign.
- jessamine, jessamy.
- The jasmine plant and flower.
- jow [juwar].
- An Indian millet.
- keemcaus [kam-khab].
- Brocade cloth.
- killedar [qiladar].
- A fort-governor.[*]
- kistbundee [qistbandi].
- Assessed land revenue.[*]
- kizmutgaur [khidmatgar].
- A serving man.
- lack [lakh].
- A hundred thousand.
- lascar [lashkar, army].
- A camp worker or Indian sailor.
- mazide [musjid].
- A mosque.
- meanah [mena].
- A curtained palanquin.
- mogree [mogra].
- Jasmine.
- Mogul.
- Mughal Empire, Muslim dynasty which ruled most of India (1526–1858), the final hundred and fifty years only nominally.
- Moorie [muharrir].
- An Indian clerk.[*]
- Morattoes.
- Marathas, a jati of agriculturalists from west-central India who formed the core of an expansive state in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- muchulca [mucalka].
- A bond.[*]
- mulna [maulana].
- A Muslim cleric.
- mussalchees [mashal-chi].
- A torchbearer.
- Mussulmen.
- Muslims, followers of Islam.
- Nabob [Nawab].
- A provincial governor or, derived from that, a rich, India-returned European.
- nakeeve [naqib].
- A herald.
- offdaur [ab-dar].
- A water bearer.
- omrah [umara].
- A nobleman or high official.
- paissay [copper paisa].
- A coin, sixty-four per Rupee.
- palankeen [palki].
- A palanquin.
- patamar [pattamar].
- A postman.[*]
- Patan [Pathan].
- An Afghan ethnicity.
- pelou [pulao].
- Pilaf, a rice dish cooked with meat.
- peon.
- A foot soldier or footman.
- pergannah [pargana].
- A district.
- pettah [patta].
- A grant.[*]
- pettah [pettai].
- A village.
- piada [piyada].
- A foot messenger.
- ponsway [pansoi].
- A type of river vessel.[*]
- purdoe [parda].
- A curtain, the seclusion of women.
- rafftanny [raftani].
- Exports.[*]
- Rajput.
- A warrior jati or caste.
- Rohella.
- Rohilla, an Afghan ethnicity, with a polity in the upper Ganges plain.
- Routeren [Rudra].
- Shiva, the Hindu God of Destruction.
- royran [rae rayan, king of kings].
- A revenue-collection official.[*]
- sahies [sais].
- A horse-groom.
- Saiks [Sikhs].
- A religious community, based in Punjab.
- sake [shaikh].
- An honorific meaning “venerable one.”
- samsundar [sham sundar, Dark Beauty].
- A processional barge.
- seapoy, sepoy [sipahi].
- An Indian infantryman, trained, dressed, and armed in a semi-European manner.
- semiana [shamiyana].
- An awning.
- seraglio.
- Women's quarters.
- serai [sarai].
- A traveler's rest house.
- shampooing [imperative of verb champi, to massage].
- Therapeutic massage.
- sirpah [sar-o-pa].
- A head to foot honorific dress.[*]
- Sittri [Kshatriya varna].
- The warrior caste.
- sotiburdar [sonta-bardar].
- A mace bearer.
- soubah [suba-dar].
- A provincial governor.
- subidar, subedar [suba-dar].
- An Indian lieutenant.
- Sudder [Shudra varna].
- A servant and agriculturalist caste.
- surma.
- Antimony.
- tanka, tunkah [tankhwah].
- A revenue assignment.
- target.
- A round shield.
- Telinga.
- The region, and people from, the Deccan region of Central India.
- toddy [tari].
- A palm tree and alcohol made from its sap; also the birds which frequent the tree.
- tomboo [tambu].
- Pavilion or canopy.
- tombourwalla [tambur-wala].
- An Indian drummer.
- topassi [topasi].
- A type of soldier with mixed European and Indian traditions.[*]
- troohewalla [turhi-wala].
- An Indian trumpeteer.
- tum-tum [tamtam].
- An Indian drum.
- tursaconna [toshak-khana].
- A wardrobe room.[*]
- vakeel [wakil].
- A trusted agent.[*]
- varna [color].
- A Hindu caste-grouping.
- vizerut [wazirat].
- Office of chief minister of state.[*]
- Whistnow [Vishnu].
- The Hindu God of Preservation.
- wooptong [ubtan].
- Paste bath of meal and mustard oil.
- zemindar [zamin-dar].
- A landholder.
- zenanah, zannanah [zenana].
- Women or women's quarters.
This term also appears in Dean Mahomet's own glossary (Letter XVI). |
