English Explanatory Dictionary

China Buckeer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. One of the chief delta mouths of the Irrawaddy river.

Word forms

China Buckeer

Etymology

Hobson-Jobson (see references) cites Emanuel Forchhammer, in his Notes on the Early History and Geography of British Burma (page 16), stating that the country between Rangoon and Bassein, i.e. on the west of the Rangoon River, bore the name of Pokhara, of which Buckeer was a corruption.

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