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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian بادشاه (bādšāh) via Hindustani बादशाह/بادشاہ (bādśāh).
Noun
Badshah (plural Badshahs)
- Alternative form of Padishah
1870, T. G. Montegomerie, “A Havildar's Journey through Chitral to Faizabad”, in 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 […]
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.