হাবেসি
Middle Bengali
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian حبشى (habašī, “Abyssinian; Negro; black slave”), from Arabic حَبَشِيّ (ḥabašiyy).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɦɑbeʃi/
Noun
হাবেসি (hābeśi)
- an Abyssinian
Descendants
- Bengali: হাবশি (habśi)
Further reading
- Sen, Sukumar, An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D., Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, 1971, page 922