Nizam definition

nĭ-zäm, -zăm, nī-
Used formerly as a title for rulers of Hyderabad, India.
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The title of the native rulers of Hyderabad, India that reigned from 1713 to 1950
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The Turkish army, especially in the 1800s.
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A soldier in the Turkish regular army.
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(historical) A native sovereign of Hyderabad, India.
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Noun

Singular:
nizam
Plural:
nizams

Origin of nizam

  • Urdu nizām(-almulk) governor (of the empire) from Arabic niẓām order, arrangement from naẓama to arrange nṯm in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Hindi [script?]; ultimately from Arabic nazama, "arrange, govern".[script?]

    From Wiktionary

Nizam Sentence Examples

  • French regiments guarded and overawed the nizam of Hyderabad.

  • The imprudent conduct of the Madras authorities had irritated beyond endurance the two greatest Mussulman powers in the peninsula, the nizam of the Deccan and Hyder Ali, the usurper of Mysore, who began to negotiate an alliance with the Mahrattas.

  • He signed a blank treaty of peace with the Mahrattas, who were still in arms, reversed the action of the Madras government towards the nizam, and concentrated all the resources of Bengal against Hyder Ali.

  • The present chiefs are descended from Momin Khan II., the last of the governors of Gujarat, who in 1742 murdered his brother-in-law, Nizam Khan, governor of Cambay, and established himself there.

  • This large tract, extending from the Arabian Sea on the west to the Satpura mountains in the north, comprises a good part of western and central India, including the modern provinces of the Konkan, Khandesh, Berar, the British Deccan, part of Nagpur, and about half the nizam's Deccan.

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