nawab

IPA: nʌwˈɑb

(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).

Examples of "nawab" in Sentences

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.