subah

• soobah, soubah

Borrowed from Urdu صوبہ (sūbā, “province”).

subah (plural subahs)

1. (India, historical) A province of the Mughal Empire.
   • 1806, , 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.

   • 1818, “Review of The History of British India by James Mill, Esq.”, in The British Review, and London Critical Journal, volume 12, pages 253–54:

     Upon this, Mirzapha Jung immediately assumed the subah, and nominated Chunda Saheb governor of the Carnatic.

2. (India, historical) Synonym of subadar (“the governor or commander in charge of a subah; a viceroy”)

• “subah”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Busha, Shaub, bahus, habus, shabu

subah

1. emphatically: because, just because

   Subah wé kaja, djĕnkat pĕdih bĕprih ^[1]

   Just because he feels so rich, he is presumptious in his speaking

subah

1. insolent, disrespecting

   Òja anak ngö subah kĕn ama-inöé pudah a.

   That child has behaved without respect towards his parents. (— implying: that's why he is ill.)