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dobash

dobash 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 dobash

pluraldobashes

Questions about dobash

What is dobash the alternative form of?
Dobash is the alternative form of dubash.

Words near dobash in the dictionary

  1. doatish
  2. doats
  3. dob
  4. dob in
  5. dob on
  6. dobash
  7. dobashes
  8. Dobb
  9. Dobb Brow
  10. dobbed
  11. dobbed in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dobash (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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