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nizam¹

  • /nɪˈzɑːm/ UK

Where it comes from

From Urdu نظام (nizām) and its source, Persian نظام (nezâm), short for نظام الملک (nezâm el-malek, “a ruler of the realm”).

noun nizams · nizamut

  1. historical The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India. The nawabs of Bhopal, Ranput, Murshidabad, and Dhaka, along with the nizam of Hyderabad, all affirmed that the sultan has misled Muslims with his “erroneous” call to jihad and insisted that Indian Muslims had a duty to support Great Britain.

nizam²

Where it comes from

From Ottoman Turkish نظام (nızam), from Arabic نِظَام (niẓām, “order, arrangement”).

noun nizams

  1. obsolete The Turkish regular army; a soldier in the Turkish army.

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@misc{nizam_2026,
  title = {nizam},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nizam},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}