boyanore

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “A corruption of the Malayalm vāllunavar, 'ruler'”)

Noun

boyanore (plural boyanores)

1. (India, obsolete) A native ruler in certain parts of India.
   • 1856, Bombay Quarterly Review, volume 3, page 103:

     In 1722, however, the French were invited to settle in Malabar by two Chiefs styled Boyanores, the elder of whom had formerly been Governor of Cadutinada, under the king of Colastry, but had lately made himself independent.

References

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