Dobhāshī

by D'Hubert, Thibaut

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Dobhāshī denotes an idiom characteristic of a trend of Bengali Muslim literature that developed in the second half of the twelfth/eighteenth century and lasted until the first decades of the twentieth. Dobhāshī means literally “(made) of two languages,” referring to the composite nature of this literary idiom: this interpretation is privileged, but another one could be the language ‘of the interpreter’, or dobhāsh/dobhāshī —an Indic term also used in Persian and Western languages to designate n…

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Dobhāshī denotes an idiom characteristic of a trend of Bengali Muslim literature that developed in the second half of the twelfth/eighteenth century and lasted until the first decades of the twentieth. Dobhāshī means literally “(made) of two languages,” referring to the composite nature of this literary idiom: this interpretation is privileged, but another one could be the language ‘of the interpreter’, or dobhāsh/dobhāshī —an Indic term also used in Persian and Western languages to designate native interpreters in South Asia (Hobson-Jobson, s.v. “Dubash, Dobash, Debash”). Dobhāshī

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1862

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eng Islam

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D'Hubert, Thibaut

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