[f. prec. sb.] trans. To flog with the kourbash.
1850. Punch’s Alm. for 1851, 7. He [the Persian Prince] had one of his attendants courbashed or flogged yesterday.
1884. Clifford Lloyd, in Times, 30 June, 8/2. The Mudir had seized 77 sheikhs and other respectable men…, and had kourbashed and tortured them all.
