Definitions for memsahib

memsahib mem·sa·hib

Spelling: [mem-sah-ib, -eeb]
IPA: /ˈmɛmˌsɑ ɪb, -ib/

Memsahib is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in memsahib (abehimms).

Definitions for memsahib

noun

  1. (formerly, in India) a term of respect for a married European woman.

Origin of memsahib

1855-60; Hindi, equivalent to mem (English ma'am) + sāhib master (Arabic ṣāḥib)

Examples for memsahib

Morbid sort of fancy I call it; but I've got to do what the memsahib tells me.

I don't think I shall ever outlive the memsahib or Tsin-ling.

He has to keep us three of course—me and the memsahib and the other Eurasian.

Clearly he could not deliver a letter to a memsahib who was not.

Morbid sort of fancy I call it, but I've got to do what the memsahib tells me.

It was the strange memsahib, the khansammah observed to himself.

But no memsahib came, and, next day, he went on to Simla cross-questioning the bearer every hour.

In those days I rode seventy miles with an English memsahib and her babe on my saddle-bow.

A rickshaw was coming down from the Mall, and the memsahib was in it.

Here Cazi Moto came up in great perturbation to announce that two of the memsahib's porters were missing.

Word Value for memsahib
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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