khammès
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic خَمَّاس (ḵammās, from خَمْسَة (ḵamsa, “five”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
khammès m (uncountable)
- a sharecropper, in the Mahgreb, who retained a fifth of the produce
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Further reading[edit]
- “khammès”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.