BEGUM • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Begum

... trips were solitary ones, if I except the companionship of my retriever "Begum," who was a present from my cousin on his return from India. Begum, he informed me, was a ruler in India, but whether male or ...

— Jethou - or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles • E. R. Suffling

... negro; nor has he the slightest conception of the relative position of great towns in India, or which States are independent; or who the Nizam is, or if his contingent is not some part of his dress; or whether the Taj is not the husband of the Begum mentioned in Pendennis. He has a vague notion that nabobs come from India, and has heard perhaps of cabobs, but what the difference is, or whether they are not articles of Indian export usually packed in casks, he has not the most ...

— A Journey to Katmandu • Laurence Oliphant