noun
(also feringhi)
1mainly derogatory (in India and other parts of Asia) a foreigner, especially one with white skin.
‘Europeans, too, are very little known here, and I heard the children continually calling out to us, as we passed through the villages, 'Feringhee'.’- ‘The casualties on the winning side were four white and eight black soldiers killed, 14 feringhee and 36 native soldiers wounded!’
2 archaic A person of Indian–Portuguese parentage.
Origin
Via Urdu from Persian firangī, from the base of Frank.
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