huzoor
English edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Arabic حُضُور (ḥuḍūr).
Noun edit
huzoor (plural huzoors)
- (dated, India) A potentate (often used as a term of respect).
- 1924, E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 15:
- ‘Here is my card. Call me a tonga.’
‘Huzoor, all are at the Club.’
Further reading edit
- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “huzoor”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 431.