soobah

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soobah (plural soobahs)

  1. Alternative spelling of subah
    • 1806, [Thomas Maurice], Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Antient Geographical Divisions, [] of Hindostan: [] , volume I. Containing the Dissertation on the Antient Geographical Divisions of Hindostan, London: Printed [] by C. & W. Galabin [] and sold by John White [] , pages 231–232:
      Hindostan was then parcelled out into twelve grand divisions, called soobahs, to each of which a viceroy was assigned, by the title of Soobahdar, corruptly written Soobah by European writers; for, soobah signifies province: many of these soobahs were in extent equal to large European kingdoms.