1. Dan Martin Dictionary

a special kind of cloth. 'Jig-rten-mgon-po, Bka'-'bum (2001) IV 190.3. ha pu ngur dmar rab kha the'u ma nyams pa yug gcig 'bul zhing mchis. 'Jig-rten-mgon-po, Bka'-'bum (2001) V 289.1. See the mysterious definition of hapuṣā in Monier-Williams: N. of a partic. substance forming an article of trade (commonly called Habush, and said to be of a long form and black colour, and smelling like raw meat or fish; it is of two kinds). It would be quite outrageous if this 'trade article' turned out to be Ethiopian slaves (see Hobson-Jobson, 428, under Hubshee). There is a possibility, though, that the names of both the type of cloth and the item of trade called Habush, derived from an Arabic name for the Abyssinians, Habashī.

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