kurbash

[ koo r-bash ]

/ ˈkʊər bæʃ /

a whip with leather thongs, formerly used in Turkey, Egypt, etc.

to whip with a kurbash.

Origin of kurbash

1805–15; < Arabic kurbāj ≪ Turkish kιrbaç whip

A bawling of voices, a snapping of the kurbash upon the flanks of the camels, and the caravan was once more under way.

The Carpet from Bagdad |Harold MacGrath
He has a French cook, but he retains the kurbash; he puts up telephones, but he does not give up the bowstring.

The Rulers of the Mediterranean |Richard Harding Davis
He carried a kurbash, a cow-hide whip, which he twirled idly, even suggestively.

The Carpet from Bagdad |Harold MacGrath
But he was not permitted to finish, as Moto sprang up furious, with his kurbash (a hippopotamus-hide whip) in hand.

My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave |Henry M. Stanley

The use of the kurbash for such purposes, once common in Egypt, has been abolished by the British authorities.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 8 |Various