huzoor

huzoor

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic حُضُور‎ (ḥuḍūr).

Noun

huzoor (plural huzoors)

1. (dated, India) A potentate (often used as a term of respect).
   • 1924, E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 15:

     ‘Here is my card. Call me a tonga.’

     ‘Huzoor, all are at the Club.’

Further reading

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “huzoor”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 431.