peshcushとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

peshcush (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 peshcushes)

1. (India, obsolete) An offering or tribute.

別の表記

• peshcash, peshkash, peshkush, peskash, pishcash, pishcush, pishkash, piscash, piskash

参照

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “peshcush”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].: "an offering or tribute, but with many specific and technical senses which will be found in Wilson, e.g. a fine on appointment, renewal, or investiture; a quit-rent, a payment exacted on lands formerly rent-free, or in substitution for service no longer exacted; sometimes a present to a great man, or (loosely) for the ordinary Government demand on land."