Hobson-Jobson
sənˈdʒɒb Origin:
1625–35; Anglo-Indian rendering of Arabic yā Ḥasan, yā Husayn lament uttered during taʿziyah; an example of such an alteration
1625–35; Anglo-Indian rendering of Arabic yā Ḥasan, yā Husayn lament uttered during taʿziyah; an example of such an alteration
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| another word for folk etymology | |
| [C19: Anglo-Indian folk-etymological variant of Arabic yā Hasan! yā Husayn! O Hasan! O Husain! (ritual lament for the grandsons of Mohammed); influenced by the surnames Hobson and Jobson] | |
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Hobson-jobson
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Hobson-Jobson
1634, British soldiers' mangled Anglicization of the Ar. cry they heard at Muharram processions in India, Ya Hasan! Ya Husayn! ("O Hassan! O Husain!"), mourning two grandsons of the Prophet who died fighting for the faith. This led to the linguists' law of Hobson-Jobson, describing the effort to bring
a new and strange word into harmony with the language.
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