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English
Etymology
From Hindi दो (do, “two”) + भाषा (bhāṣā, “language”).
Noun
dubash (plural dubashes)
- (India, dated) An Indian translator or interpreter.
1844, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, John Gurwood, The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, page 1625:[…] inhabitants complain to him, and as he does not understand the language he is obliged to call for his dubash to interpret what they say; […]
- (India, dated) An Indian general household steward.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90:
- This I learnt was the captain's dubash, a native man acting as general steward who provides every household article as well as of merchandise, and engages all inferior servants.
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