In India, ? – 19ᵗʰ century,
Robin, or Robbin, (?) A term used in Malabar for a measure of grain : according to Mr. Graeme, it is the same as the Morah : a different, but anonymous authority makes it a fourth of a Khandi, or Candy; in that case it may be a barbarism for the Arabic Rabâ, or Arbâ, four, a fourth.
H. H. Wilson, 1855, page 444.
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