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n. Used formerly as a form of respectful address for a European man in colonial India.

n. formerly, a term of respect for a white European in colonial India

n. A respectful title or appellation given to Europeans of rank.

n. A term of respect used by the natives of India and Persia in addressing or speaking of Europeans: equivalent to Master or Sir, and even to Mistress: as, Colonel sahib; the sahib did so and so; it is the mem-sahib's command. (See mem-sahib.) It is also occasionally used as a specific title among both Hindus and Mohammedans, as Tippoo Sahib.

n. formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India; used after the name

"It’s March 2005, and I’m just the 75th sap — or “foreigner,” in Mizo (from the colonial Hindi term sahib) — so far this year, and one of the few sap journalists to have shown an interest in the bamboo flowering, or in anything at all in Mizoram."

saheb   

European   

memsahib   

memsahib   

shikari    cata    bibi    apang