peshcush

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Persian پیشکش. === Noun === peshcush (countable and uncountable, plural peshcushes) (India, obsolete) An offering or tribute. ==== Alternative forms ==== peshcash, peshkash, peshkush, peskash, pishcash, pishcush, pishkash, piscash, piskash ==== References ==== Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “peshcush”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].: "an offering or tribute, but with many specific and technical senses which will be found in Wilson, e.g. a fine on appointment, renewal, or investiture; a quit-rent, a payment exacted on lands formerly rent-free, or in substitution for service no longer exacted; sometimes a present to a great man, or (loosely) for the ordinary Government demand on land."