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Gratuity given for services; not payment. Not, as commonly mistranslated, “bribe.” Derived from Persian root meaning “to give.” Used in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and South Asian Muslim languages to mean a gift given by a superior to an inferior, including, in Sufism, God's gifts to His worshipers.
From: Bakshish in The Oxford Dictionary of Islam »
Subjects: Islam.
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