Algerian Arab gendarmes live from Baksheesh, they are nevertheless very well paid by the Algerian assassin power.
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Baksheesh
//bækˈʃiːʃ//
Synonyms for "baksheesh" (17 found)
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Noun(4 words)
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Related words (8)
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42 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- بَقْشِيش noun (bribe or tip)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- hörmət noun (bribe or tip)
Bulgarian
1 entries- бакши́ш noun (bribe or tip)
Czech
1 entries- bakšiš noun (bribe or tip)
Finnish
2 entries- juomaraha noun (bribe or tip)
- lahjus noun (bribe or tip)
French
1 entries- bakchich noun (bribe or tip)
Gagauz
1 entries- baaşiş noun (bribe or tip)
German
1 entries- Bakschisch noun (bribe or tip)
Greek
3 entries- λάδωμα noun (bribe or tip)
- μπαξίσι noun (bribe or tip)
- φιλοδώρημα noun (bribe or tip)
Gujarati
1 entries- બક્ષિસ noun (bribe or tip)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- bakshish noun (bribe or tip)
Hebrew
1 entries- בַּקְשִׁישׁ noun (bribe or tip)
Hindi
1 entries- बख़्शीश noun (bribe or tip)
Hungarian
2 entries- baksis noun (bribe or tip)
- borravaló noun (bribe or tip)
Irish
1 entries- síneadh láimhe noun (bribe or tip)
Macedonian
1 entries- бакши́ш noun (bribe or tip)
Marathi
1 entries- बक्षीस noun (bribe or tip)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بخشش noun (bribe or tip)
Persian
2 entries- انعام noun (bribe or tip)
- بخشیش noun (bribe or tip)
Polish
2 entries- bakczysz noun (bribe or tip)
- bakszysz noun (bribe or tip)
Portuguese
1 entries- baksheesh noun (bribe or tip)
Romanian
1 entries- bacșiș noun (bribe or tip)
Russian
3 entries- бакши́ш noun (bribe or tip)
- взя́тка noun (bribe or tip)
- чаевы́е noun (bribe or tip)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- bàkšiš noun (bribe or tip)
- ба̀кшиш noun (bribe or tip)
Slovak
2 entries- bakšiš noun (bribe or tip)
- všimné noun (bribe or tip)
Slovene
1 entries- bakšiš noun (bribe or tip)
Spanish
1 entries- baksheesh noun (bribe or tip)
Swahili
1 entries- bakshishi noun (bribe or tip)
Tatar
1 entries- чәйлек noun (bribe or tip)
Turkish
1 entries- bahşiş noun (bribe or tip)
Ukrainian
1 entries- бакшиш noun (bribe or tip)
Urdu
1 entries- بخشیش noun (bribe or tip)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
What an honour to think that I am to be elevated to the throne, and to bring the seat in Parliament as backsheesh to the sultan!
Source: wiktionary
As we rode into Magdala not a soul was visible. But the ring of the horses' hoofs roused the stupid population, and they all came trooping out—old men and old women, boys and girls, the blind, the crazy, and the crippled, all in ragged, soiled and scanty raiment, and all abject beggars by nature, instinct and education. […] [O]ut of their infidel throats, with one accord, burst an agonizing and most infernal chorus: "Howajji, bucksheesh! howajji, bucksheesh! howajji, bucksheesh! bucksheesh! bucksheesh!" I never was in a storm like that before. As we paid the bucksheesh out to sore-eyed children and brown, buxom girls with repulsively tattooed lips and chins, we filed through the town […]
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[…] the complex Oriental etiquette which under the name of “baksheesh” calls for lavish remuneration and bribes, rudely demanded but ever so graciously accepted by the natives in return for little or no services rendered.
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