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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 1008 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SAHIB , a See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of respect in See also:

India, specially used to designate Europeans. The word is Arabic, and originally means a See also:

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion. It is generically fixed to the titles of men of See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank, as See also:

KHAN (from the Turki, hence Persian and Arabic Khan)

Khan Sahib, See also:

NAWAB

Nawab Sahib, See also:

RAJA

Raja Sahib, and is See also:

EQUIVALENT

equivalent to See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master. The proper feminine See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form is sahiba; but the hybrid See also:

TERM

term memsahib (from madam and sahib) is universally used in India for See also:

EUROPEAN

European ladies.

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