Meaning

1 senses
  1. (India, historical)An Indian translator or interpreter, particularly in their role as a household steward for British colonizers.

Origin

From Hindi दो (do, “two”) + भाषा (bhāṣā, “languages”).

From Hindi दो (do, “two”) + भाषा (bhāṣā, “languages”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: dubashes

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

dubash — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto