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noun a governor in India during the Mogul empire
originFrom Hindi नवाब (navāb)/Urdu نواب (navāb), from Persian نوّاب (navvâb), ultimately from Arabic نُوَّاب (nuwwāb), plural of نَائِب (nāʔib, “naib”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0