different between honorific vs begum

English

Alternative forms

• honorifick (obsolete, rare)
• honourific (non?standard)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n????f?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???n????f?k/
• Hyphenation: hon?or?if?ic
• Rhymes: -?f?k

Noun

honorific (plural honorifics)

1. A title. (e.g., Mister, Misses, Doctor, Professor)
2. A term of respect; respectful language.
4. (linguistics) A word or word form expressing the speaker's respect for the hearer or the referent.

Translations

Adjective

honorific (comparative more honorific, superlative most honorific)

1. Showing or conferring honour and respect.
   • 1996, T. P. Wiseman, “The Minucii and Their Monument”, in Jerzy Linderski (editor), Imperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic, Franz Steiner Verlag, ?ISBN, page 59:

     According to Pliny, the custom of setting up honorific statues on columns was a comparably ancient one.

2. Based on or valuing honor
   • 2010, Orlando Patterson, “The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence”, in John R. Hall et al. (editors), Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Taylor & Francis, ?ISBN, page 143:

     In the honorific cultural process, individuals (especially men) are extremely sensitive to real or perceived insults, and […]

Antonyms

• derogatory

Derived terms

• honorifically

Translations

English

Etymology 1

be- +? gum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b????m/

Verb

begum (third-person singular simple present begums, present participle begumming, simple past and past participle begummed)

1. (transitive) To daub or cover with gum.

Etymology 2

From Urdu ????? and Hindi ???? (begam, “lady”), from East Turkic begüm, from Beg (a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey) + -um (feminine suffix for titles of nobility). Compare ????? (han?m).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be???m/, /?b???m/

Noun

begum (plural begums)

1. a high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in India and Pakistan
   • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 1,^[1]

     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.
2. the form of address for such a woman

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References

Related terms

• bey (male form of begum)

Anagrams

• gumbe