英和和英

語源

From Hindi बौचा (baucā).

名詞

bocha (plural bochas)

1. (India, historical) A two-door sedan chair.
   • 1825, John Borthwick Gilchrist editing Thomas Williamson as The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum..., Appendix No. IV, pp. 652 & 658:

     When the compilation by Williamson was first examined in order to correct his vulgar mode of spelling Hindoostanee words, a good while since, the number seemed so formidable, that innovation, even from a wrong system to a right one, was then indefinitely suspended; but... it would be unjust to postpone emendation any farther... incorrect... bochah,... correct... bocha.

   • 1868 February 7, "Englishman", "Attempted Assassination of Sir Salar Jung...", Hyderabad Times, Vol. III, p. 41:

     Sir Salar Jung was proceeding to the palace of the Nizam on his bocha, a sort of state palanquin, in order to be present at the customary Eed durbar... when two shots in rapid succession were fired.

   • 1931, Server Jung Bahadur, translated by Bahadur Yar Jung, My Life, page 139:

     […] the Amir-i-Kabir, seated in a "Bocha" (palanquin), had also arrived at the gate of the Royal Palace […]

   • 1995, The India Magazine of Her People and Culture, volume 16, page 17:

     […] the bocha, the chair-palanquin […]

参照

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “bocha”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].