Re: Translations - 1
Bapa Rao (brao@tis.com)
Mon, 8 Sep 1997 11:25:49 -0700 (PDT)
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> Chowdary Jampala wrote:
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> > PS: The word 'almirah' is something that many of us would use without
> > hestitation in a translation. I checked my Webster's New Encyclopedic
> > Dictionary with its 300,000 plus entries and didn't find almirah in there.
>
> According to my trusted Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged
> Dictionary(1989), "almirah" the "Anglo-Indian" (hindusthAnI, according
> to Brown) word was derived from the Portuguese word "almario", which
> in turn was derived from the Latin word "armArium", meaning closet, chest.
The more common cognate word in English books is armoire.
Bapa Rao