nawab

== English == === Etymology === From Hindi नवाब (navāb)/Urdu نواب (navāb), from Persian نوّاب (navvâb), ultimately from Arabic نُوَّاب (nuwwāb), plural of نَائِب (nāʔib, “naib”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /nəˈwɑːb/, /nəˈwɔːb/ Rhymes: -ɑːb, -ɔːb Hyphenation: na‧wab === Noun === nawab (plural nawabs) (historical) A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor. [from 17th c.] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura (possibly a subgenus of genus Charaxes). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== nabob naib === References === “nawab”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026 “nawab”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present. “nawab”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN. “nawab”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. “nawab”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. === Anagrams === Waban, ba-wan, bawan, bwana