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noun a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
originFrom Turkish bahşiş, from Persian بخشیش (baxšiš, “present; an honorary or pecuniary gratuity; drink-money”) or بخشش (baxšeš), from بخشیدن (baxšidan, “to give, grant, bestow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0