nawab
IPA: nʌwˈɑb
noun
- (historical) A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura (possibly a subgenus of genus Charaxes).
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Examples of "nawab" in Sentences
- The Family of the Nawabs of Karnal.
- Nawab refused the fort to the Guru.
- He had to pay tribute to the Nawab.
- This frustrated the Nawab of Bengal.
- But the Nawab was a novice in warfare.
- He is the progenitor of the Nawabs of Oudh.
- Nawab then proceeded to announce this decision.
- Evolution of the position of the Nawab of Bengal.
- The Nawab agreed, and did not renege over the deal.
- The Nawab made the blunder in giving the order to stop the war.
- But the one that earned him immense recognition and the title 'nawab' was "Bhaktha Ramadass".
- He was also the second leader, or nawab, of Awadh, a breakaway principality from the Mughal empire.
- In theory, I knew nabob was from nawab, but they occur in such different contexts and are pronounced so differently it's hard to keep it in my head.
- I came across a reference to the Nawab of Oudh, wondered what exactly a nawab was, and thought "this is exactly the sort of thing Hobson-Jobson specializes in."
- But surrounded as they are by works they collected and commissioned, both nawab and expatriate come across as actively engaged with and curious about each other's cultures.
- "But darling, the 'nawab' is already treating her with a fabulous valentine gift in Europe on the day, he even gifted her a charter plane and top of that even featured in the recent worst disasters of their acting careers 'Tashan' and 'Kurbaan'.
- He who had once negotiated with the nawab of Bengal to build a trading station on the banks of the Hoogly and traded horses and sugar in Persia and on the Malay archipelago; he who lost cargoes and gambled on trades now was building fifty Anglican churches.