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izzat

izzat noun: honour, pride; reputation. Also the contraction of is.

Noun

izzat (uncountable)

  1. (India, North, Pakistan) Honour, pride; reputation.
    • ‘But whether the native swaggers or cringes there's always something behind every remark he makes, always something, and if nothing else he's trying to increase his izzat – in plain Anglo-Saxon, to score.’1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 29
    • ‘She has cut off our noses. And our izzat.’1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 10
  2. (derogatory) A purported system of social credit alleged to be endemic to Indian culture that is used in Indophobic circles as an explanation for the perceived behaviour of Indians.

Also used as

izzat is also the contraction of is.

Forms of izzat

alternative formizat
alternative formzat
alternative form'zat

Origin of izzat

Borrowed from Hindustani عِزَّت ('izzat) / इज़्ज़त (izzat), from Classical Persian عِزَّت (izzat), from Arabic عِزَّة (ʕizza).

Questions about izzat

What does izzat mean?
Izzat means honour, pride; reputation.
What part of speech is izzat?
Izzat is a noun.

Words near izzat in the dictionary

  1. Izz
  2. izzard
  3. izzards
  4. izzarees
  5. izzaries
  6. izzat
  7. Izzi
  8. Izzie
  9. Izzies
  10. Izzis
  11. izzit

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