bibi
nounEtymology From Hindi बीबी (bībī), from Classical Persian بیبی (bī-bī).
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India A grandmother.
- The bibis of European men were treated in the same way as upper-class Muslim women, that is, they were kept hidden from view and did not mingle socially with men.2010, Stephen Markel, Tushara Bindu Gude, India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, page 59:
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