बादशाह

See also: बादशहा

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بادشاه‎ (bâdešâh) (compare پادشاه‎ (pâdešâh, pâdšâh)). Compare Maithili बादसाह (bādᵊsāh) / 𑒥𑒰𑒠𑒮𑒰𑒯 (bādasāha), Punjabi ਬਾਦਸ਼ਾਹ (bādśāh) / بادْشاہ‎ (bādśāh), Sindhi بادشاهُ‎ / बादशाहु, Gujarati બાદશાહ (bādśāh), Marathi बादशहा (bādaśhā), Bengali বাদশাহ (badośaḣ), Telugu పాదుషా (pāduṣā).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /bɑːd̪.ʃɑːɦ/, [bäːd̪.ʃäːɦ]

Noun

बादशाह • (bādśāh) m (Urdu spelling بَادْشَاہ‎)

1. Badshah, Padishah; Muslim king

   Synonyms: शहंशाह (śahanśāh), सुल्तान (sultān), राजा (rājā), महाराजा (mahārājā), सम्राट (samrāṭ)

2. (chess, card games) king

Declension

Declension of बादशाह (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	बादशाह bādśāh	बादशाह bādśāh
oblique	बादशाह bādśāh	बादशाहों bādśāhõ
vocative	बादशाह bādśāh	बादशाहो bādśāho

Further reading

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “बादशाह”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Nepali

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [bäd̪sä̤ː], [bäsːä]

• Phonetic Devanagari: बाद्साः

Noun

बादशाह • (bādśāha)

1. (card games) king

Coordinate terms

Playing cards in Nepali · तास (tās) (layout · text)
एक्का (ekkā)	दुक्का (dukkā)	तिक्का (tikkā)	चौका (caukā)	पन्जा (panjā), पंजा (pañjā)	छक्का (chakkā)	सत्ता (sattā)
अट्ठा (aṭṭhā)	नहल (nahal)	दहल (dahal)	गुलाम (gulām)	मिस्सी (missī), रानी (rānī)	बादशाह (bādśāha)	जोकर (jokar)