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Kababish|kəˈbɑːbɪʃ|
Also 8 Cubbabeesh, 9 Kobabeish.
[Arab. ḳabābīš, pl. of ḳabbāši.]
A nomadic Arab people of the northern Kordofan and Dongola provinces of the Sudan. Also attrib.
1790J. Bruce Trav. IV. viii. x. 515 Lately the Beni Gerar, Beni Faisara, and Cubba-beesh, have expelled the ancient Arabs of Bahiouda. a1817J. L. Burckhardt Trav. Nubia (1822) 438 The Djerar, Kobabeish, and Feysara live to the north and north-east. 1861J. Petherick Egypt, Soudan & Cent. Afr. xvii. 282 The entire Kababish nomade tribe inhabiting the northern confines of the province emigrated to Darfour. 1891F. R. Wingate Mahdiism & Egyptian Sudan ix. 288 The Kababish, who lived in the desert west of Dongolee. 1898Alford & Sword Egyptian Soudan i. ii. 26 The earliest and most important revolt against the Khalifa was the rising of the Kababish Arabs. 1918C. G. & B. Z. Seligman in Harvard Afr. Stud. II. 105 The Kabâbîsh constitute the richest and most powerful of the Arab tribes of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 1954H. A. MacMichael Sudan vii. 74 Little tribal authority survived except among those nomadic tribes, such as the Kababish. 1960A. Tibble With Gordon in Sudan ii. 48 Those camel-owning nomads whom Gordon would meet between Dongola and Metemma were the Kababish. |