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nawaub

nawaub is the alternative form of nawab.

Meaning of nawab

Noun

nawab (plural nawabs)

  1. (historical) A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor.
    • Colonel Altamont, the Nawaub of Lucknow’s prime favourite, an extraordinary man, who had, it was said, embraced Mahometanism, and undergone a thousand wild and perilous adventures was at present in this country, trying to negotiate with the Begum Clavering, the sale of the Nawaub’s celebrated...1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 38, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
  2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura (possibly a subgenus of genus Charaxes).

Forms of nawaub

pluralnawaubs

Questions about nawaub

What is nawaub the alternative form of?
Nawaub is the alternative form of nawab.

Words near nawaub in the dictionary

  1. Nawanshahr
  2. Nawar
  3. Nawars
  4. NAWASA
  5. nawasib
  6. nawaub
  7. nawaubs
  8. nawaubship
  9. Nawaz
  10. Nawazes
  11. Nawdm

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nawaub (page history and authors); nawab (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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