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Feringhee|fəˈrɪŋgiː|
Forms: 6 firingi, 7 fringe, frangee, 8 fe-, firingy, 9 faringee, ferenghi, feringhee; ferangi.
[An oriental adoption of frank, with Arab. ethnic suffix -i; in Arab. faranjī, in Pers. farangī.]
Formerly, the ordinary Indian term for a European; in 19th c. applied esp. to the Indian-born Portuguese, and contemptuously to other Europeans.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 171 A Christian. Frangee. 1638W. Bruton in Hakluyt's Voy. (1807) V. 52 The Portugals which they call by the name of Fringes. 1755Holwell in J. Long Select. Rec. Govt. (1869) 59 (Yule) By Feringy I mean all the black mustee Portugese Christians residing in the settlement. 1774Bogle in Markham Tibet (1876) 176 Everybody was afraid of the Fringies. c1813Mrs. Sherwood Ayah & Lady Gloss., Feringhees, Franks. A name given generally to Europeans in India, and to the descendants of the Portuguese, who first settled in India: these are called Black Feringhees, being remarkably dark. 1834H. Caunter Orient. Ann. v. 60 The unhallowed feet of faringees or Christians. 1866A. Lyall Old Pindaree iii, in Verses written in India (1889) 2 There goes my lord the Feringhee, who talks so civil and bland. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 57 Ferangi, European. 1936F. Stark S. Gates Arabia xv. 162 No Ferangi goes without a servant. |