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baksheesh (n.)
1620s, in India, Egypt, etc., "a tip," from Persian
bakhshish
, literally "gift," from verb
bakhshidan
"to give" (also "to forgive"), from PIE root
*bhag-
"to share out, apportion, distribute" (see
-phagous
).
