dubashn.
/duːˈbɑːʃ/, U.S. /duˈbɑʃ/, Indian English /ðuːˈbhɑːʃ/ East India.
An Indian interpreter or commissionaire, employed in transacting business between Europeans and the local people, and as a guide, courier, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > [noun] > interpreter
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1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 30 The Moors..not vouchsafing to return an Answer by a Slave, but by a Deubash, who is the Interpreter.
1776 in Gentleman's Mag. (1792) 14/2 Two days before our arrival at Hyderabad, I sent my Dubash on before.
1814 W. Brown Hist. Propagation Christianity (1823) I. 198 The rapacious dubashes denied them full payment.
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. i. 2 By inquiry of the dubashes.
1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 515 The dubashes, a superior sort of valet de place and cicerone.
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