nizam

From Urdu نظام (nizām) and its source, Persian نظام (nezâm), short for نظام الملک (nezâm el-malek, “ruler of the realm”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nɪˈzɑːm/

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nizam (plural nizams or nizamut)

1. (historical) The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India. [from 18th c.]
   • 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 71:

     The nawabs of Bhopal, Ranput, Murshidabad, and Dhaka, along with the nizam of Hyderabad, all affirmed that the sultan has misled Muslims with his “erroneous” call to jihad and insisted that Indian Muslims had a duty to support Great Britain.

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “nizam”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 628.

From Ottoman Turkish نظام (nızam), from Arabic نِظَام (niẓām, “order, arrangement”).

nizam (plural nizams)

1. (obsolete) The Turkish regular army; a soldier in the Turkish army. [19th c.]

• Ziman, Manzi, Mainz, Nzima

From Arabic نِظَام (niẓām).

• IPA^(key): /niˈzɑm/

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nizam (definite accusative nizamı, plural nizamlar)

1. (proper) order

   Synonym: yöndəm

   nizama salmaq ― to get in order

   yeni dünya nizamı ― new world order

2. order, routine
3. (military) formation
4. (military) line
5. (computing) preferences, settings

   Synonym: ayar

• “nizam” in Obastan.com.

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نظام (nızam), from Arabic نِظَام (niẓām, “order, arrangement”).

nizam m (plural nizami)

1. nizam

From Ottoman Turkish نظام (nizam), from Arabic نِظَام (niẓām).

• IPA^(key): /ni.zam/

nizam (definite accusative nizamı, plural nizamlar)

1. order, arrangement

   Synonym: düzen

• nizami (“statutory”)
• nizamiye
• nizamlı
• nizamsız

• intizam (“orderliness”)
• manzum (“poetical”)
• muntazam (“steady, symmetrical, even”)
• nazım (“poem”)
• tanzim (“regulation, distribution”)