A whip, typically of hippopotamus hide, formerly used as an instrument of punishment in Turkey and Egypt.
（土耳其和埃及用作刑具的，通常用河马皮做成的）皮鞭
Example sentencesExamples
- Did the museum fear outraged slavers descending on it with kurbashes?
- Taxes were extorted by torture, for which the notorious Egyptian kurbash, a whip with five lashes made of rhinoceros hide, was used.