单词 | nizam |
释义 | Nizamn.1 Now historical. (The title of) the hereditary ruler of Hyderabad, a former state of Southern India, divided in 1956 between Andhra Pradesh, Mysore (now Karnataka), and Maharashtra. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > other independent rulers > [noun] > other Indian, Asian, or Muslim mirzac1560 zamorin1582 Rana1630 imam1698 Nizam1769 chagan1776 khakan1777 Gaekwar1782 Sawbwa1800 temenggong1964 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > titles applied to royalty > for a king or ruler > for foreign king or ruler Sophy1539 shah1566 sophi1598 padishah1612 pangeran1616 Sophia1649 Nizam1769 rajaship1784 Shahanshah1815 inkosi1835 1769 Ann. Reg. 1768 66*/1 This bold adventurer worked upon the weakness of the Nizam of the Decan. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 539 The possessions of the Nizam or Soubah of the Deccan. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. viii. 268 It is under the title of the Nizam, that the Subahdar of Deccan is commonly known. 1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive in Ess. (1897) 509 Some glittering puppet dignified by the title of Nabob or Nizam. 1893 Whitaker's Almanack 454 Hyderabad is as large as..Italy, and the Nizam enjoys a gross revenue of Rx. 3,340,000. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 454/1 Akalkot, a native state of India, in the Deccan division of Bombay..situated between the British district of Sholapur and the nizam's dominions. 1970 R. Wingate Lord Ismay viii. 180 Attlee replied in a long personal letter [c. Sept.–Oct. 1948] pointing out that in fact the Nizam had not been a free agent, but in the hands of the ‘Razakars’ (the extreme Muslim party). 1988 Oxf. Illustr. Encycl. IV. 159 [Asaf Jah Nizam ul-Mulk's] successors ruled until 1948 as nizams (governors) of Hyderabad. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † Nizamn.2 Obsolete. The Turkish regular army, the principal constituent of Sultan Selim III's New Order (Nizam-ı Cedid), proclaimed in 1793; the body of men composing this army; a soldier of this army. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > [noun] > other armies Grand Army1792 Grande Armée1819 Grand Army1827 Nizam1840 Red Army1919 Reichswehr1920 ARVN1966 1840 J. B. Fraser Trav. Koordistan II. xvii. 404 You see the slim figures of the Nizam flitting past you in their semi-European garb. 1845 Lady H. Stanhope Mem. I. vii. 258 She saw a man, in a nizàm dress. 1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 588/1 The total of the nizam is thus 156,480 men. 1877 Echo 20 July 4/3 General Gourkho's éclaireurs came on a fortified position held by a battalion of Turkish Nizams. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11769n.21840 |
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