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.‎^[1], volume 922, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers.