babouche

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French babouche, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic بَابُوش (bābūš), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian پاپوش (pâpuš, “slipper”).

Noun

babouche (plural babouches)

1. A Turkish or Moroccan slipper having no heel
   • 1729, Abel Boyer, The Royal Dictionary, French and English, and English and French Extracted from the Writings of the Best Authors in Both Languages‎^[1], London: J. and J. Knapton:

     BABOUCHE, S. F. (soulier des Turcs, & autres peuples orientaux,) a Shoe worn by the Turks, and other Oriental Nations.

Translations

Turkish or oriental slipper

• Arabic: بَابُوش m (bābūš)

  Egyptian Arabic: شبشب m (šebšeb), (archaic) بلغة f (bulḡa)

  Moroccan Arabic: بلغة f (bulḡa)

• Armenian: հողաթափեր (hoġatʻapʻer)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平底拖鞋 (píngdǐ tuōxié)

• Esperanto: babuŝo
• Finnish: babouche-tossu (fi)
• French: babouche (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Babusche (de) f
• Ido: babucho (io)
• Japanese: バブーシュ (babūshu)
• Kazakh: бәпіш (bäpış)
• Persian: پاپوش (fa) (pâ-puš)
• Portuguese: babucha f
• Russian: бабу́ша (ru) f (babúša)
• Spanish: babucha (es) f
• Turkish: terlik (tr)

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French

Noun

babouche f (plural babouches)

1. babouche