bakshish

Other forms of bakshish

plural

bakshishes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bakshish

What does bakshish mean?

bakshish means "a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)".

How many syllables are in bakshish?

bakshish has 2 syllables: bak-shish. The stress falls on "bak".

What is another word for bakshish?

Close synonyms include gratuity, tip, pourboire, baksheesh, bakshis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bakshish a common word?

bakshish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.