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Webster 1913 Edition

Babu

{ ‖

Ba′boo

, ‖

Ba′bu

}

(bä′boō)

,

Noun.

[Hind.

bābū

.]

A Hindu gentleman; a native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindu title equivalent to the English

Mr.

or

Esquire

.

Whitworth.