Skip to content
Ojalá
Words
Certain: The standard etymology in the RAE dictionary and in Corriente; no serious doubt.Clothes & colour · Common

babucha

a light backless slipper in Eastern stylezapatilla ligera sin talón, de estilo oriental

Comes from Arabic

بَابُوش

bābūsh

“slipper”«zapatilla»

Arabic today says

شِبْشِب

shibshib

The article

It came in without the article.

Arabic itself had taken it from Persian.

The story

From Persian pāpūsh ("foot-cover"); it came into Spanish late, via French babouche. In the Middle East بابوج is also said, and in Morocco the slipper is the بلغة.Del persa pāpūsh («cubre-pie»); llegó al español tarde y por el francés babouche. En Oriente se dice también بابوج, y en Marruecos la babucha es la بلغة.

More from “Clothes & colour”