Nizam
noun
the title of the ruler of Hyderabad from the beginning of the 18th century to 1950.
Nizam
American
[ni-zahm, -zam, nahy-]
/ nɪˈzɑm, -ˈzæm, naɪ- /
noun
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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.
Nizam
1
British
/ nɪˈzɑːm /
noun
nizam
2
British
/ naɪˈzæm /
noun
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
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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
“It’s amazing,” said Fatima Nizam, a medical evaluator from Toronto and one of the 600 workers on the vaccination force at Javits.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2021
In the last years of her life, in shaky blue ink on cream paper, she beseeched Hyderabad's prime minister and Nizam for some form of compensation.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2019
“If we stick together, we can do this,” Hussein tells Nizam, with whom he’s travelled since Turkey.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2015
We mentioned last month the probable seizure by the English government, of part of the provinces of the Nizam as security for a debt.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper
The nizam juggled between his obligations to the colonial raj and to India’s rising pro-independence leaders Jawaharlal Nehru and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
It quickly became clear to Mr. Khan’s inner circle that Mr. Khan intended his illustriously pedigreed grandson, not his eldest son, to be the next nizam.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
The families on the beach, the man sitting at a table next to him, the waiters — nobody knew that he was Hyderabad’s last nizam.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
By then the nizam no longer enjoyed real power.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
The present nizam is Mahbub Ali, who was born in 1866, was partially educated in England and is very popular with all classes of people--particularly with those who profit by his extravagance.
From Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis
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