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nizams

nizams is the plural of nizam.

Meaning of nizam

Noun (1)

nizam (plural nizams or 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.2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 71

Noun (2)

nizam (plural nizams)

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

Questions about nizams

What is nizams the plural of?
Nizams is the plural of nizam.

Words near nizams in the dictionary

  1. nizamate
  2. nizamates
  3. Nizamiyya
  4. Nizamiyyas
  5. nizamoffite
  6. nizams
  7. nizamut
  8. Nizar
  9. Nizari
  10. Nizaris
  11. Nizarism

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