/hob"seuhn job"seuhn/ , n.
the alteration of a word or phrase borrowed from a foreign language to accord more closely with the phonological and lexical patterns of the borrowing language, as in English hoosegow from Spanish juzgado.
[ 1625-35; Anglo-Indian rendering of Ar ya Hasan, ya Husayn lament uttered during ta'ziyah; an example of such an alteration ]