Nizam
Americannoun
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the title of the ruler of Hyderabad from the beginning of the 18th century to 1950.
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(lowercase) the Turkish regular army or any member of it.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Nizam
1595–1605; Nizam ( def. 1 ) < Urdu Nizām-al-mulk governor of the realm; Nizam ( def. 2 ) < Turkish nizamiye regular army; both < Arabic niẓām order, arrangement
Example Sentences
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Nizam Mamode, a professor of transplant surgery at Guy's and Great Ormond Street Hospitals, until he retired last year before the incident, said IT problems were a major issue.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023
The search has moved south to where the two divers were found, Mersing maritime chief Khairul Nizam Misran said.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2022
As Nizam Ali told me in 2009, the decision for years to stand pat with only its U Street diner was often framed as a family issue:
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2015
“Man, I’m so stressed,” says Nizam, a young computer scientist who left Syria after his father died in a bombing last year.
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2015
Not far from this arose the minarets of Ellora and its pagodas, and the famous Aurungabad, the capital of the ferocious Aurung-Zeb, now the chief town of one of the detached kingdoms of the Nizam.
From Round the World in Eighty Days by Verne, Jules
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