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debash

debash is the alternative form of dubash.

Meaning of dubash

Noun

dubash (plural dubashes)

  1. (India, historical) An Indian translator or interpreter, particularly in their role as a household steward for British colonizers.
    • This I learnt was the captain's dubash, a native man acting as general steward who provides every household article as well as of merchandise, and engages all inferior servants.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90

Forms of debash

pluraldebashes

Questions about debash

What is debash the alternative form of?
Debash is the alternative form of dubash.

Words near debash in the dictionary

  1. debasement
  2. debasements
  3. debaser
  4. debasers
  5. debases
  6. debash
  7. debashes
  8. debasing
  9. debasingly
  10. debasings
  11. debatability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: debash (page history and authors); dubash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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