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Badshah
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badshah
English
Etymology
Borrowed from en fa-cls بادشاه bādšāh via en inc-hnd hi बादशाह -/ur بادشاہ bādśāh.
Noun
en Padishah.
en 1870 T. G. Montegomerie A Havildar's Journey through Chitral to Faizabad The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London it is rumoured by the people, was accidentally discovered in a spot in this neighbourhood by a Fakir, who in person reported the circumstance to the Badshah of Chitral; the latter was then conducted to the spot
en 2000 Khushwant Singh The Collected Novels Uncle Reloo told me that the badshah could drink twenty cups of arrack and eat tolas of opium every day and yet poke his queen and the other women of his harem every night.