हब्शी
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Hindi
Alternative forms
- हबशी (habśī)
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian حبشی (habašī, “Abyssinian; Negro; black slave”), from Arabic حَبَشِيّ (ḥabašiyy).
Pronunciation
Noun
हब्शी • (habśī) m or f by sense (Urdu spelling حبشی)
- (sometimes derogatory, ethnic slur) dark-skinned African, Negro, black man
- Siddi, Afro-Indian
- Synonym: सिदी (sidī)
- (dated) Abyssinian, Ethiopian
Declension
NOTE: This term is declined masculine or feminine according to the gender of the referent.
Declension of हब्शी (masc ī-stem)
Declension of हब्शी (fem ī-stem)
Further reading
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “हब्शी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Nepali
Pronunciation
Noun
हब्शी • (habśī) m or f
- alternative spelling of हब्सी (habsī)