Chapter CORGE to COROMANDEL of C by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

1744, i. 351; and a paper of about 1759, published by Dalrymple, has “Choromandel Coast” (Orient. Repert. i. 120–121). The poet Thomson has Cormandel:

“all that from the tract
Of woody mountains stretch’d through gorgeous Ind
Fall on Cormandel's Coast or Malabar.”

Summer.

The Portuguese appear to have adhered in the main to the correcter form Choromandel: e.g. Archivio Port. Oriental, fasc. 3, p. 480, and passim. A Protestant Missionary Catechism, printed at Tranquebar in 1713 for the use of Portuguese schools in India has: “na costa dos Malabaros que se chama Cormandel.” Bernier has “la côte de Koromandel” (Amst. ed. ii. 322). W. Hamilton says it is written Choramandel in the Madras Records until 1779, which is substantially correct. In the MS. “List of Persons in the Service of the Rt. Honble. E. I. Company in Fort St. George and other places on the Coast of Choromandell,” preserved in the Indian Office, that spelling continues down to 1778. In that year it is changed to Coromandel. In the French translation of Ibn Batuta (iv. 142) we find Coromandel, but this is only the perverse and misleading manner of Frenchmen, who make Julius Caesar cross from “France” to “England.” The word is Ma’bar in the original. [Alboquerque (Comm. Hak. Soc. i. 41) speaks of a violent squall under the name of vara de Coromandel.]

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