Nizam
noun
the title of the ruler of Hyderabad from the beginning of the 18th century to 1950.
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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
“The Chili Bowl has been all about family, and we want to keep our family intact,” said Nizam, the son of founders Ben and Virginia Ali.
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
In this picture taken in 1899, the Nizam, Mahbub Ali Khan, and his party pose with tiger skins.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2013
It may be also that after the death of his patron, Nizam ul Mulk, Omar lost his stipend and was reduced to poverty.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
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
Mr. Jah was crowned the nizam of Hyderabad.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
By then the nizam no longer enjoyed real power.
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
The result of this treaty, however, was that the English were unable to carry out their proposed alliance, with the peishwar, against the nizam and Bussy.
From With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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