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Definition of nawab in English: nawabnoun nʌˈwɑːb Indian historical 1A native governor during the time of the Mogul empire. as title Nawab Haider Beg Example sentencesExamples - Under effective British rule since 1757, the nawab dynasties of Bengal, Orissa, and Bihar were united into the single province and ruled from Calcutta.
- Governors of the Mughal empire also took advantage of growing feebleness - the nawabs of Bengal, Oudh and Hyderabad were soon to establish quasi-independent states which owed only nominal allegiance to Delhi.
- The next nawab, his nephew Azim-ud-Daula, had to give up much of his powers and territory and became the first titular Nawab of the Carnatic.
- ‘My father was a nawab of Tonk while my mother was from a khandaani hakeem family,’ he says.
- This right was bestowed on us by emperors, rajas and nawabs (local rulers and influentials in the undivided Indian subcontinent).
- He has published many papers on maharajas and nawabs of India.
- Bengal was absorbed into the Mughul Empire in the 16th century, and Dhaka, the seat of a nawab (the representative of the emperor), gained some importance as a provincial center.
- Equally, as a Governor-General above the political fray, he played a crucial role in persuading maharajahs and nawabs distrustful of the socialist Nehru to accept that they had no choice but to merge their domains into the Indian Union.
- And their power-crazed heads obviously long to wear a crown, which is why they behave like old-style nawabs and potentates.
- The nawab who ruled Junagarh cared more about his dogs than his subjects.
- For the first time in the history of Bangalore's star hotels, you can come and indulge like a nawab and forget that diet till tomorrow.
- 1.1 A Muslim nobleman or person of high status.
Example sentencesExamples - The art form, once performed for nawabs and zamindars, gives way to modern music
- Drive past the Prime Minister's secretariat, the Shariah court, the Supreme Court, the National Assembly and the majestic houses of the nawabs.
- In Lucknow, the Shia auqaf properties are higher in number, their value running in billions of rupees, perhaps due to Lucknow's Shia nawabs ' munificence.
- Lucknowi nawabs were great connoisseurs of food.
- Ghazal singing, earlier an art form restricted to the nawabs and aristocrats, was bought to the people by Begum Akhtar and later popularised by Pankaj Udhas.
- Come evening and the nawabs and the well-heeled would climb atop the terraces of their sprawling ‘deodis’ and let loose their pigeons.
- A Dacca barrister teased him for behaving more like a once-rich Muslim nawab wedded to a fanciful past and visions of lost glory than an educated, middle-class Hindu lawyer.
- Made famous by the Muslim nawabs of Lucknow, those on the receiving end enjoyed courtesy, food, drink and congeniality - all served with an elegant world-class flourish.
Origin From Urdu nawwāb, variant of Arabic nuwwāb, plural (used as singular) of nā'ib 'deputy'; compare with nabob. Rhymes barb, carb, garb, hijab, Punjab, sahib Definition of nawab in US English: nawabnoun Indian historical 1A native governor during the time of the Mogul empire. as title Nawab Haider Beg Example sentencesExamples - The next nawab, his nephew Azim-ud-Daula, had to give up much of his powers and territory and became the first titular Nawab of the Carnatic.
- Equally, as a Governor-General above the political fray, he played a crucial role in persuading maharajahs and nawabs distrustful of the socialist Nehru to accept that they had no choice but to merge their domains into the Indian Union.
- Governors of the Mughal empire also took advantage of growing feebleness - the nawabs of Bengal, Oudh and Hyderabad were soon to establish quasi-independent states which owed only nominal allegiance to Delhi.
- Under effective British rule since 1757, the nawab dynasties of Bengal, Orissa, and Bihar were united into the single province and ruled from Calcutta.
- ‘My father was a nawab of Tonk while my mother was from a khandaani hakeem family,’ he says.
- This right was bestowed on us by emperors, rajas and nawabs (local rulers and influentials in the undivided Indian subcontinent).
- For the first time in the history of Bangalore's star hotels, you can come and indulge like a nawab and forget that diet till tomorrow.
- And their power-crazed heads obviously long to wear a crown, which is why they behave like old-style nawabs and potentates.
- Bengal was absorbed into the Mughul Empire in the 16th century, and Dhaka, the seat of a nawab (the representative of the emperor), gained some importance as a provincial center.
- The nawab who ruled Junagarh cared more about his dogs than his subjects.
- He has published many papers on maharajas and nawabs of India.
- 1.1 A Muslim nobleman or person of high status.
Example sentencesExamples - Come evening and the nawabs and the well-heeled would climb atop the terraces of their sprawling ‘deodis’ and let loose their pigeons.
- Made famous by the Muslim nawabs of Lucknow, those on the receiving end enjoyed courtesy, food, drink and congeniality - all served with an elegant world-class flourish.
- The art form, once performed for nawabs and zamindars, gives way to modern music
- A Dacca barrister teased him for behaving more like a once-rich Muslim nawab wedded to a fanciful past and visions of lost glory than an educated, middle-class Hindu lawyer.
- Ghazal singing, earlier an art form restricted to the nawabs and aristocrats, was bought to the people by Begum Akhtar and later popularised by Pankaj Udhas.
- Lucknowi nawabs were great connoisseurs of food.
- Drive past the Prime Minister's secretariat, the Shariah court, the Supreme Court, the National Assembly and the majestic houses of the nawabs.
- In Lucknow, the Shia auqaf properties are higher in number, their value running in billions of rupees, perhaps due to Lucknow's Shia nawabs ' munificence.
Origin From Urdu nawwāb, variant of Arabic nuwwāb, plural (used as singular) of nā'ib ‘deputy’; compare with nabob. |