khammès

French

Alternative forms

• khammas

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.mɛs/

Noun

khammès m (uncountable)

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

Related terms

• khammessat

Further reading

• “khammès”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.