হাবেসি

Middle Bengali

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حبشی (habašī, “Abyssinian; Negro; black slave”), from Arabic حَبَشِيّ (ḥabašiyy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɑbeʃi/

Noun

হাবেসি (hābeśi)

  1. an Abyssinian

Descendants

  • Bengali: হাবশি (habośi)

Further reading

  • Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.‎[1], volume 922, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers.
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