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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic خَمَّاس (ḵammās, from خَمْسَة (ḵamsa, “five”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
khammès m (uncountable)
- a sharecropper, in the Mahgreb, who retained a fifth of the produce
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