Talk:dubash

RFC discussion: September 2014

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dubash

Someone with knowledge of Hindi needed to move the information in the definition line to the etymology. --Type56op9 (talk) 14:55, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Done. Now is this term used to refer to translators working in India by non-Indians, or is it Indian English for any translator? DTLHS (talk) 16:18, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Hobson-Jobson says:

An interpreter; obsolete except at Madras, and perhaps there also now, at least in its original sense; [now it is applied to a dressing-boy or other servant with a European.] The Dubash was at Madras formerly a usual servant in every household; and there is still one attached to each mercantile house, as the broker transacting business with natives, and corresponding to the Calcutta banyan (q.v.). According to Drummond the word has a peculiar meaning in Guzerat: 'A Doobasheeo in Guzerat is viewed as an evil spirit, who by telling lies, sets people by the ears.' This illustrates the original meaning of dubash, which might be rendered in Bunyan's fashion as Mr. Two-Tongues.

Equinox ◑ 20:37, 1 December 2021 (UTC)