khammès

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic خَمَّاس (ḵammās, from خَمْسَة (ḵamsa, five)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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khammès m (uncountable)

  1. a sharecropper, in the Mahgreb, who retained a fifth of the produce
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