Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·South Asia ·1890s
Jodhpurs
from Jodhpur
- Meaning
- Riding trousers, tight below the knee.
- Source word
- Jodhpur
- Route into English
- Named for the city of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, whose horsemen wore the style. Adapted by British officers in the 1890s and popularised at British riding schools.
- Arrived
- 1890s
From South Asia
Three centuries of British colonial contact — East India Company, Raj, military, domestic life — deposited a distinct Hindi/Urdu/Bengali/Sanskrit layer in everyday English.
English borrows.
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