begum means A surname of Bengali usage. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
begum is pronounced /bəˈɡʌm/.
name
- A surname of Bengali usage
noun
- An honorific title from Central and South Asia, often used by leading women in society.
- a high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in South Asia“He went to India with his capital, and there, according to a wild legend in our family, he was once seen riding on an elephant, in company with a Baboon; but I think it must have been a Baboo—or a Begum.”
- the form of address for such a woman“It was a known fact that an envoy from an Indian Prince, a Colonel Altamont, the Nawaub of Lucknow’s prime favourite, an extraordinary man, who had, it was said, embraced Mahometanism, and undergone a thousand wild and perilous adventures was at present in this country, trying to negotiate with the Begum Clavering, the sale of the Nawaub’s celebrated nose-ring diamond, ‘the light of the Dewan.’”
verb
- To daub or cover with gum.