হাবেসি
Middle Bengali
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Classical Persian حبشی (habašī, “Abyssinian; Negro; black slave”), from Arabic حَبَشِيّ (ḥabašiyy).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editহাবেসি (hābeśi)
- an Abyssinian
Descendants
edit- Bengali: হাবশি (habośi)
Further reading
edit- Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.[1], volume 922, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers.