Etymology

abwab

A1B3W4A1B3

Today it means: A tax, or impost, levied by a chief on a landowner. Full definition →

Hindi अबवाब ← Persian ابواب ← Arabic أَبْوَاب
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromأَبْوَاب“doors, sources of revenue”
  2. Persian · derived fromابواب
  3. Hindi · borrowed fromअबवाब
  4. English todayabwab

From Hindi अबवाब (abvāb), from Persian ابواب (abvâb), from Arabic أَبْوَاب (ʔabwāb, “doors, sources of revenue”), plural of بَاب (bāb, “door”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.