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5 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a governor in India during the Mogul empire
noun a wealthy man (especially one who made his fortune in the Orient)
originIn colloquial usage in English since 1612, from a corruption of Hindustani नवाब (navāb) / نواب (navāb, “nawab”), perhaps via Portuguese nababo, from Classical Persian نَوَّاب (nawwāb), from Arabic نُوَّاب (nuwwāb), the honorific plural of نَائِب (nāʔib, “deputy”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0