Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man. · Originally, a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official. · an archetypical Indian bureaucrat, perceived as being corrupt, lazy or arrogant.
Borrowed from Hindi बाबू (bābū), from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *बाब्ब (bābba), imitative of baby talk.
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