হাবেসি

Middle Bengali

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɦɑbeʃi/

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.‎, volume 922, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers.
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