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saheb

saheb is the alternative form of sahib.

Meaning of sahib

Noun

sahib (plural sahibs)

  1. (historical) A term of respect for a white European or other man of rank in colonial India.
    • One day when the Man's Wife and the Tertium Quid had just arrived in the Cemetery, they saw some coolies breaking ground. They had marked out a full-size grave, and the Tertium Quid asked them whether any Sahib was sick. They said that they did not know; but it was an order that they should dig a...1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 52

Forms of saheb

pluralsahebs

Questions about saheb

What is saheb the alternative form of?
Saheb is the alternative form of sahib.

Words near saheb in the dictionary

  1. Saharsa
  2. Sahas
  3. SAHD
  4. Sahdev
  5. SAHDs
  6. saheb
  7. sahebs
  8. saheeh
  9. Sahehwamish
  10. Sahel
  11. Sahelian

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