Citations:yallah

English citations of yallah

• 1862, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Technologist. Ed. by P.L. Simmonds, page 2:

  [The oil] obtained also from the kernels of the fruit, is an article of common consumption in India, and may often be met with under the names of Mowha or Yallah oil in the London market.

  • 1871, Edward Balfour, Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific: Products of the Mineral, Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures, page 347:

    Mahwa Oil is obtained from the kernels of the fruit, is an article of common consumption in India, and may often be met with under the names of Mohwa or yallah oil in the London market.

  • 1879, Charles Rice, Frederick Albert Castle, New Remedies‎^[1], volume 8, Wm. Wood & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 195:

    From the kernels of the fruit a thick concrete oil is extracted by the natives; this is an article of common consumption in India, and is often seen in the London market under the name of Mowha, or Mahwa, or Yallah Oil.

  • 1885, Edward Balfour, The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial, Industrial and Scientific Products of the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures‎^[2], volume 1, B. Quaritch, →OCLC, page 290:

    Mahwa oil, obtained from the kernels of the fruit, is solid at 95°, is an article of common consumption in India, and may often be met with under the names of Mowha or Yallah oil in the London market.

• 1870, English Mechanics and the World of Science‎^[3], volume 11, →OCLC, page 331:

  Molwa oil, Yallah oil. Bengal ; maurá, Goa (Bassia latifolia). For lighting.

• 1919, Edward Lewis Sturtevant, Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants, page 84:

  B. latifolia Roxb. Epie. Mahoua. Yallah-Oil Plant. East Indies. The succulent flowers fall by night in large quantities from the tree, are gathered early in the morning, dried in the sun and sold in the bazaars as an important article of food.*

  • 1919, New York. Department of Agriculture, Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture ...‎^[4], volume 2, State Printer, →OCLC, page 84:

    B. latifolia Roxb. EPIE. MAHOUA. YALLAH-OIL PLANT.
    East Indies. The succulent flowers fall by night in large quantities from the tree, are gathered early in the morning, dried in the sun and sold in the bazaars as an important article of food. They have sickish, sweet taste and smell and are eaten raw or cooked. The ripe and unripe fruit is also eaten, and from the fruit is expressed an edible oil.⁴

• 2012 December 2, B.S. Middleditch, Kuwaiti Plants: Distribution, Traditional Medicine, Pytochemistry, Pharmacology and Economic Value (ISSN)‎^[5], Elsevier, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 15:

  Flowers from Bassia latifolia Roxb. (Epie, Mahoua, Yallah oil plant), Bassia longifolia L. (Illupie plant, Ilpa), and Bassia malabarica Bedd. are dried and eaten either raw or cooked, while an edible oil is obtained from the fruit of all three species.