Brewer's: Bakshish

A Persian word for a gratuity. These gifts are insolently demanded by all sorts of officials in Turkey, Egypt, and Asia Minor, more as a claim than a gratuity.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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