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badshah

badshah is the alternative form of Padishah.

Meaning of Padishah

Noun

Padishah (plural Padishahs)

  1. A ruler of a Muslim country or state.

Noun capitalized: Badshah

Badshah (plural Badshahs)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Padishah.
    • […] it is rumoured by the people, was accidentally discovered in a spot in this neighbourhood by a Fakir, who in person reported the circumstance to the Badshah of Chitral; the latter was then conducted to the spot […]1870, T. G. Montegomerie, “A Havildar's Journey through Chitral to Faizabad”, in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London
    • Uncle Reloo told me that the badshah could drink twenty cups of arrack and eat tolas of opium every day and yet poke his queen and the other women of his harem every night.2000, Khushwant Singh, The Collected Novels

Forms of badshah

pluralbadshahs
pluralBadshahs

Origin of badshah

Borrowed from Classical Persian بادشاه (bādšāh) via Hindustani बादशाह/بادشاہ (bādśāh).

Questions about badshah

What is badshah the alternative form of?
Badshah is the alternative form of Padishah.
What part of speech is badshah?
Badshah is a noun.
What is the plural of badshah?
The plural of badshah is badshahs.

Words near badshah in the dictionary

  1. Badours
  2. Badrinath
  3. bads
  4. bads up
  5. Badsey
  6. badshah
  7. badshahs
  8. badsome
  9. badtempered
  10. badthink
  11. Badu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: badshah (page history and authors); Badshah (page history and authors); Padishah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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