A number of words entered English from Punjabi and from the languages of Punjab through the army and the administration.
Khaki, from the Persian and Urdu for dust-coloured, was adopted as a uniform colour by the Corps of Guides at Mardan in the 1840s, which is the origin of khaki as a military standard worldwide.
Cushy is generally derived from khushi, happiness, picked up by British soldiers in India. Blighty is from vilayati, foreign, which came to mean Britain. Doolally is from Deolali, a transit camp near Bombay. Loot is from lut.
Chit, cot, pyjama, dungaree, bungalow, jungle, veranda and shampoo all come from Indian languages, several through the Punjab and the north-west.
Punjabi has taken more than it gave: a very large amount of English is now embedded in ordinary Punjabi speech, and the diaspora dialects run English and Punjabi together in the same sentence continuously.
The traffic through the army in the nineteenth century is the reason a British soldier's slang and a Punjabi farmer's vocabulary overlap at all.
Jungle is from jangal, waste or uncultivated ground, which in Punjabi still means scrub and not rain forest. Bungalow is from bangla, the Bengal style house, and it reached Punjab as the standard officer's quarters before it reached England as a suburban house type. The words moved with the men who used them.
Punjabi is a borrower and always has been. Persian for administration and law, Arabic through Persian for religion and trade, Sanskrit for the older layer, a handful of Turkish military words, Portuguese for things on a table, and now English for anything technical. A sentence about a tubewell in a Malwa village runs through three languages.
The traffic runs the other way too and now runs faster. Ordinary Punjabi speech now carries a large English vocabulary, and the emigration industry has added a set of terms of its own.