different between galipot vs talipot

English

Borrowed from French galipot; compare Old French garipot (“the wild pine or pitch tree”).

galipot (countable and uncountable, plural galipots)

galipot m (plural galipots)

Hindi [Term?]

talipot (plural talipots)

A tall palm tree, Corypha umbraculifera, from Sri Lanka and southern India, having very large leaves and flowers
- 1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, London: J. Brotherton et al., p. 304,^[1]
  On Sunday, Oct. 12. being stored with all things needful for their Journey, viz. Ten Days Provision, a Basin to boil their Provision in, two Calabashes to fetch Water in, and two great Tallipat Leaves for Tents, with Jaggory, Sweet-meats, Tobacco, Betell, Tinder-Boxes, and a Deer-Skin for Shoes, to keep their Feet from Thorns, because to them they chiefly trusted.

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