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despot meaning in Urdu

تاناشاہ tānāśāh

UK/ˈdɛs.pɒt/US/ˈdɛs.pət/

despot in Urdu: تاناشاہ (tānāśāh). In English, despot means a ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.

Urdu words for despot

despot
تاناشاہ tānāśāh

English meaning of despot

  1. noun A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
  2. noun A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries).

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Questions about despot in Urdu

What is the meaning of despot in Urdu?
Despot in Urdu is تاناشاہ (tānāśāh).
despot کا اردو میں کیا مطلب ہے؟
Despot: تاناشاہ (tānāśāh).
What does despot mean in English?
Despot means a ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.

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Urdu words from Wiktionary's Urdu entries whose English meaning is “despot”: تاناشاہ. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: despot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Urdu words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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