sahib

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A term of respect for a white European or other man of rank in colonial India. historical
    — 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 Sahib's grave.

词形变化

sahibs plural Sahib alternative

词源

From Hindustani صاحب / साहिब (sāhib, “lord”), from Classical Persian صاحب (sāhib), from Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib, “companion”).
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