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soubah

soubah is the alternative spelling of subah.

Meaning of subah

Noun

subah (plural subahs)

  1. (India, historical) A province of the Mughal Empire.
    • Hindostan was then parcelled out into twelve grand divisions, called soobahs, to each of which a viceroy was assigned, by the title of Soobahdar, corruptly written Soobah by European writers; for, soobah signifies province: many of these soobahs were in extent equal to large European kingdoms.1806, [Thomas Maurice], Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Antient Geographical Divisions, […] of Hindostan: […] , volume I. Containing the Dissertation on the Antient Geographical...
  2. (India, historical) Synonym of subadar (“the governor or commander in charge of a subah; a viceroy”).
    Synonyms:
    subadar

Forms of soubah

pluralsoubahs

Questions about soubah

What is soubah the alternative spelling of?
Soubah is the alternative spelling of subah.

Words near soubah in the dictionary

  1. Souad
  2. souanpan
  3. souari
  4. soubadar
  5. soubadars
  6. soubah
  7. soubahdar
  8. soubahdars
  9. soubahs
  10. Soubam
  11. soubedar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soubah (page history and authors); subah (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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