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‖ ferash Anglo-Ind.|fɛˈrɑːʃ|
Also 7 farras, frass, 9– farrash.
[Urdū from Arab. farrāsh, f. farasha to spread.]
‘A menial servant whose proper business is to spread carpets, pitch tents, etc., and do similar domestic work. In more common use in India two centuries ago than now’ (Yule).
1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 321 Other officers called Farrasin, that is..chamberlaines. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 67 Where live the Frasses, or Porters also. 1824Hajji Baba I. 59, I am a ferash, (a carpet spreader) said he. 1873H. Blochmann tr. Abu al Fazl ibn Mubarak's Ain I Akbari I. xvi. 47 Besides, there are employed a thousand Farráshes, natives of I'rán, Túrán, and Hindustan. 1876A. Arnold in Contemp. Rev. June 31 The governor..kindly sent ten ferashes, or servants, to conduct us. 1894Safar Nameh Persian Pict. 162 It belonged to the Shah's farrash. 1965B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular iii. 80 Nobody seemed surprised at Ankara when the bags were handed over to the embassy's farrash at the station by me and not by my friend at Tripoli. |