H'bad

English Etymology en Hyderabad. The apostrophe character ' separating the first letter of the unabbreviated spelling from the Persian placename suffix -abad with the elision of the initial vowel letter. Compare A’bad. Proper noun 1 en @abbr of:Hyderabad city s/Telangana c/India. en 1920 w:Who's Who (UK) 72 1 w:A & C Black https://books.google.co.in/books?id=FBU2AQAAMAAJ 30 AFSUR-UL-MULK, Afsur-ud-Dowlat, Afsur Jung, Mirza Muhammad Ali Beg Mohamed Beg, Khan Bahadur, Nawab, Lie. Col.; Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire K.C.I.E.; er.; Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire C.I.E. 1897; M. Hon. A.D.C. to Nizam of Hyderabad Nizam of Hyder. Commander the Nizam’s Regular Force, b. Aurangabad (Deccan): o.s. of late Vilayet Ali Beg, Ressaldar 3rd Lancers H’bad contingent en 2006 Headline Writing Sunil Saxena Sage Publishing Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd 81-7829-564-4 https://books.google.co.in/books?id=7MqGahiFQScC&pg=PA179 179 [An] unfortunate development in Indian newspapers is the abbreviation of the names of cities and states to meet headline requirements. Thus, ‘Maharashtra’ has become ‘M’rashtra’ and ‘Hyderabad’ has become ‘H’bad’. A good headline writer must avoid short cuts in writing headlines. en Hyderabad