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babouche
1690s, from Fr.
babouche
, from Arabic
babush
, from Pers.
papush
, from
pa
"foot" (related to Avestan
pad-
, see
foot
) +
posh
"covering." Arabic, lacking a
-p-
, regularly converts
-p-
in foreign words to
-b-
.