babouche

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈbuːʃ/
• Rhymes: -uːʃ

Noun

babouche (plural babouches)

1. A Turkish or Moroccan slipper having no heel.

   Synonym: harem slipper

   • 1729, Abel Boyer, The Royal Dictionary, French and English, and English and French Extracted from the Writings of the Best Authors in Both Languages‎^[1], London: J. and J. Knapton:

     BABOUCHE, S. F. (soulier des Turcs, & autres peuples orientaux,) a Shoe worn by the Turks, and other Oriental Nations.

   • 1920, Edith Wharton, In Morocco‎^[2]:

     Everything that the reader of the Arabian Nights expects to find is here: […] the tunnelled passages where indolent merchants with bare feet crouch in their little kennels hung with richly ornamented saddlery and arms, or with slippers of pale citron leather and bright embroidered babouches; […]

Translations

Turkish or oriental slipper

• Arabic: بَابُوش m (bābūš)

  Egyptian Arabic: شبشب m (šebšeb), (archaic) بلغة f (bulḡa)

  Moroccan Arabic: بلغة f (bulḡa), بلغة (balḡa)

• Armenian: հողաթափեր (hoġatʻapʻer)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平底拖鞋 (píngdǐ tuōxié)

• Esperanto: babuŝo
• Finnish: babouche-tossu
• French: babouche (fr) f
• German: Babusche (de) f
• Ido: babucho (io)
• Japanese: バブーシュ (ja) (babūshu)
• Kazakh: бәпіш (bäpış)
• Ottoman Turkish: باشمق (başmak)
• Persian: پاپوش (fa) (pâ-puš)
• Portuguese: babucha f
• Russian: бабу́ша (ru) f (babúša)
• Spanish: babucha (es) f
• Turkish: terlik (tr)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French papouch, babuc, from Ottoman Turkish پاپوش (papuş), from Persian پاپوش (pâpuš, “slipper”). Compare Arabic بَابُوش (bābūš).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.buʃ/

Noun

babouche f (plural babouches)

1. babouche
   • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

     Ensuite, il a traîné ses babouches sur le bois autrefois verni et il s’est arrêté sur le pas de sa porte pour dire à mi-voix, comme s’il se parlait à lui-même : […]

     Then, he dragged his oriental slippers along the once-varnished wood and stopped at his doorstop to say, in a low voice, as if he were talking to himself: […]

Descendants

• → English: babouche

Further reading

• “babouche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.