Translation of "Bakschisch" in English

Known as baksheesh, this can be quite frustrating.

It starts out small: a tip here, a bribe over there....

Staff is "baksheesh" for each handle on out.

He explains us also, why one should not give money or Bakschisch to the small children.

Our tent sits in the front yard of a mud hut, and since Kenians are good business men, a villager asks us for a little ‘bakshish' for security and night watch services.

That is why many decided to get some money, offering their services in exchange for baksheesh .

Test your strength booths, punching balls, grilled corn, ?evap?i?i, roast suckling, cotton candy and music coming at you from every direction, dozens and dozens of Serbian and Gypsy brass bands marching in formation down streets, playing for baksheesh in restaurants, competing with other bands for the attention of patrons.

You can not fight them, because this form of self-financing supports Islam, recognizing baksheesh as a way of helping the poor.

Those responsible, who naturally expected a respectable baksheesh for the go-ahead, gave up in the end and gave us the longed for document, simply to get rid of us!

But such arrests won't stop the corruption in the long term, the daily newspaper Trud comments: "Nothing works without a baksheesh on Bulgaria's borders.

Accepted that for every, even the slightest service, a tourist must leave the tip, Also known as baksheesh .

Tipping is known as baksheesh ("present") and is a baisc part of travelling and living in Egypt.

From these facts Lansburgh draws the amusing petty-bourgeois moral of how unstable and irregular export trade is when it is bound up with loans, how bad it is to invest capital abroad instead of “naturally” and “harmoniously” developing home industry, how “costly” are the millions in bakshish that Krupp has to pay in floating foreign loans, etc.

The latter gives a baksheesh even despite the fact that tip in restaurants shall be taken into account in the amount of 10% of the contract.

A romp through the virtual desert sand costs no more than a tiny baksheesh: You can set the reels rolling for as little as 10 cents.

An old croissant sits wearily in a plate. I at once hand bakshish out, as the waiter should not be ashamed.

A number of bonzes told us – naturally in Sinhalese language – apparently highly interesting things of which we understood nothing which ended with a very comprehensible demand for baksheesh.

A part of that line was the result of a deal between the new Israeli government and the king of Jordan, Abdallah I, who gave us the so-called Triangle as a baksheesh, in return for Israel's agreement to his annexation of most of the rest of Palestine.

It starts out small: a tip here, a bribe over there.... And between this and that, one’s freedom is slowly lost.

Passing by a large symbol of a bull which was being watered eagerly with the Ganges water, we reached the "fountain of insight" (Gyan Kup), into which during the conquest of Benares by Aurangzeb, according to legend, the guardian of the most noble Hindu temple had thrown the image of Vishnu which had been placed under his protection.Today, this fountain only offers foul water of which every pilgrim will receive a spoonful from a Brahhmin in exchange for a suitable baksheesh.

These graffiti shows ceremonies performed in front of the 7th Pylon built by Thutmosis III. For sure, not everybody was privileged enough to attend the ceremonies at the court in front of the pylon, i.e. the majority of the people had been kept back at the 8th Pylon. These graffiti were most likely carved into the walls by visitors who were allowed - most likely as today after giving some baksheesh - to enter the roof of the pylon and to view the ceremonies from there.

Tips are an important source of income for many people in Egypt. Taxi drivers, waiters and porters expect a “Bakschisch” not only from the foreign guest. If the service was satisfying, 5-10% of the price is reasonable, the basic unit is the pound note (e.g. for toilet fees).