nizam

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English

Etymology 1

From Urdu نظام (nizām) and its source, Persian نظام (nizâm), short for نظام الملک (nizâm el-malek, “ruler of the realm”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

nizam (plural nizams)

  1. (historical) The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India. [from 18th c.]
    • 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin 2016, p. 71:
      The nawabs of Bhopal, Ranput, Murshidabad, and Dhaka, along with the nizam of Hyderabad, all affirmed that the sultan has misled Muslims with his “erroneous” call to jihad and insisted that Indian Muslims had a duty to support Great Britain.

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish نظام (nızam), from Arabic نِظَام (niẓām, “order, arrangement”).

Noun

nizam (plural nizams)

  1. (obsolete) The Turkish regular army; a soldier in the Turkish army. [19th c.]

Anagrams

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