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sahiba

sahiba is the alternative form of sahibah.

Meaning of sahibah

Noun

sahibah (plural sahibahs)

  1. (India, archaic) A lady; a mistress; a female superior (used as a term of respect).
    • Twenty villages knew the Sahiba—her failings, her tongue, and her large charity.1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim
    Synonyms:
    memsahib

Forms of sahiba

pluralsahibas

Questions about sahiba

What is sahiba the alternative form of?
Sahiba is the alternative form of sahibah.

Words near sahiba in the dictionary

  1. Sahelians
  2. Sahelo-
  3. Saher
  4. Sahewamish
  5. sahib
  6. sahiba
  7. sahibah
  8. sahibahs
  9. sahibas
  10. sahibdom
  11. Sahibganj

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sahiba (page history and authors); sahibah (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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