H'bad

English

Etymology

Contraction of Hyderabad. The apostrophe character ' separating:

1. The first letter, H, of the unabbreviated spelling.
2. The Persian placename suffix -abad with the elision of the initial vowel letter.

Compare A’bad.

Proper noun

H’bad

1. Abbreviation of Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
   • 1920, Who's Who (UK), volume 72, number 1, A & C Black, page 30:

     AFSUR-UL-MULK, Afsur-ud-Dowlat, Afsur Jung, Mirza Mohamed Beg, Khan Bahadur, Nawab, Lie. Col.; K.C.I.E.; er.; C.I.E. 1897; M. Hon. A.D.C. to 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

   • 2006, Sunil Saxena, Headline Writing, Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, →ISBN, page 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.