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BANYAN, or BANIAN (an Arab corruption, borrowed by the Portuguese from the Sanskrit vanij, " merchant ")

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 363 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BANYAN, or BANIAN (an Arab corruption, borrowed by the Portuguese from the Sanskrit vanij, " merchant ") , the Ficus Indices, or Bengalensis, a tree of the fig genus. The name was originally given by Europeans to a particular tree on the Persian Gulf beneath which some Hindu " merchants " had built a pagoda. In Calcutta the word was once generally applied to a native broker or head clerk in any business or private
house
 , now usually known as sircar. Bunya, a corruption of the word common in Bengal generally, is usually applied to the native
grain
 -dealer. Early writers sometimes use the
term
  generically for all Hindus in western India.
Banyan
  was long Anglo-Indian. for an undershirt, in allusion to the
body
  garment of the Hindus, especially the
Banyan
 .
Banyan days is a nautical
slang
 
term
 , In the British navy there were formerly two days in each
week
  on which meat formed no part of the men's rations. These were called banyan days,, in allusion to the vegetarian diet of the Hindu merchants. Banyan
hospital
 
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also became a
slang
  term for a
hospital
 
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for animals, in reference to the Hindu's humanity and his dislike of taking the life of any animal.


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