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‖ dubash East Ind.|duːˈbɑːʃ, -æ-|
Also 7 deubash, 9 debash, dubashee.
[ad. Hindī dūbhāshiya, dōbāshī, man of two languages, f. dō, dū two + bhāshā language.]
An (Indian) interpreter or commissionaire, employed in transacting business with the natives, and as a cicerone, courier, etc.
1698Fryer Acc. E. Ind. & P. 30 The Moors..not vouchsafing to return an Answer by a Slave, but by a Deubash, who is the Interpreter. 1776in Gentl. Mag. (1792) 14/2 Two days before our arrival at Hyderabad, I sent my Dubash on before. 1814W. Brown Hist. Prop. Chr. (1823) I. 198 The rapacious dubashes denied them full payment. 1832Marryat N. Forster xxxviii, By inquiry of the dubashee. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 318 The dubashes, a superior sort of valet de place and cicerone. |