Etymology

babouche

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Today it means: A Turkish or Moroccan slipper having no heel. Full definition →

French babouche ← Arabic بَابُوش ← Persian پاپوش
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The story

  1. Persian · derived fromپاپوش“slipper”
  2. Arabic · derived fromبَابُوش
  3. French · borrowed frombabouche
  4. English todaybabouche

From French babouche, from Arabic بَابُوش (bābūš), from Persian پاپوش (pâpuš, “slipper”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.