subah

English

Alternative forms

• soobah, soubah

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu صوبہ (sūbā, “province”).

Noun

subah (plural subahs)

1. (India, historical) A province of the Mughal Empire.
   • 1806, [Thomas Maurice], Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Antient Geographical Divisions, […] of Hindostan: […] , volume I. Containing the Dissertation on the Antient Geographical Divisions of Hindostan, London: Printed […] by C. & W. Galabin […] and sold by John White […] , pages 231–232:

     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.

   • 1818, “Review of The History of British India by James Mill, Esq.”, in The British Review, and London Critical Journal, volume 12, pages 253–54:

     Upon this, Mirzapha Jung immediately assumed the subah, and nominated Chunda Saheb governor of the Carnatic.

2. (India, historical) Synonym of subadar (“the governor or commander in charge of a subah; a viceroy”)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “subah”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Busha, Shaub, bahus, habus, shabu

Gayo

Conjunction

subah

1. emphatically: because, just because

   Subah wé kaja, djĕnkat pĕdih bĕprih

   Just because he feels so rich, he is presumptious in his speaking

Adjective

subah

1. insolent, disrespecting

   Òja anak ngö subah kĕn ama-inöé pudah a.

   That child has behaved without respect towards his parents. (— implying: that's why he is ill.)