A variant spelling of 'babul' or 'babool'; refers to the acacia tree or its gum, with alternate transliteration.
Another variant transcription of the Arabic 'bābūl,' showing the diversity of English spelling systems in the 19th-20th centuries when borrowing from Eastern languages.
Before standardized transliteration systems, merchants and colonists spelled words phonetically based on their own accent—so 'babloh,' 'babul,' and 'babool' could all appear in the same British text.
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