babouche

英 [bə'buːʃ] 美 [bɑ'bʊʃ]
  • n. 平底拖鞋;无后鞋跟的套鞋
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babouche (n.)
1690s, from French babouche, from Arabic babush, from Persian papush, from pa "foot" (related to Avestan pad-, from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot;" see foot (n.)) + posh "covering." Arabic, lacking a -p-, regularly converts -p- in foreign words to -b-.