babouche

English

From French babouche, from Arabic بَابُوش‎ (bābūš), from Persian ‎ (pâpuš, “slipper”).

babouche (plural babouches)

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, London: J. and J. Knapton:
  BABOUCHE, S. F. (soulier des Turcs, & autres peuples orientaux,) a Shoe worn by the Turks, and other Oriental Nations.
- 1920, Edith Wharton, In Morocco‎:
  Everything that the reader of the Arabian Nights expects to find is here: […] the tunnelled passages where indolent merchants with bare feet crouch in their little kennels hung with richly ornamented saddlery and arms, or with slippers of pale citron leather and bright embroidered babouches; […]

Turkish or oriental slipper

Arabic: بَابُوش‎ m (bābūš)
Egyptian Arabic: شبشب‎ m (šebšeb), (archaic) بلغة‎ f (bulḡa)
Moroccan Arabic: بلغة‎ f (bulḡa), بلغة‎ (balḡa)
Armenian: հողաթափեր (hołatʿapʿer)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 平底拖鞋 (píngdǐ tuōxié)
Esperanto: babuŝo
Finnish: babouche-tossu
French: babouche (fr) f
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)

From Middle French papouch, babuc, from Ottoman Turkish پاپوش‎ (papuş), from Persian ‎ (pâpuš, “slipper”). Compare Arabic بَابُوش‎ (bābūš).

babouche f (plural babouches)

babouche
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
  Ensuite, il a traîné ses babouches sur le bois autrefois verni et il s’est arrêté sur le pas de sa porte pour dire à mi-voix, comme s’il se parlait à lui-même : […]
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