‖ omrah
(ˈɒmrɑː)
Also 7 ombra(h, umpra, umbrawe, umbraye, 7–8 umera, umbra, omra.
[Urdū umarā, orig. Arab. pl. of amīr ‘commander, lord’, but used already in Urdū in sense ‘lord or grandee of a court’, with pl. umarāyān ‘omrahs’ (Yule).]
A lord or grandee of a Muslim court, esp. that of the great Mogul.
| 1625 Purchas Pilgrims I. 427 Presently came a great Ombra. 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 55 His Leiftenants of Provinces, and Vmbraves of Townes and Forts. 1684 J. Phillips tr. Tavernier's Trav. I. ii. i. 46 (Stanf.) A great Court, where the Omra's, that is to say, the great Lords of the Kingdom..keep Guard in Person. 1708 Lond. Gaz. No. 4448/3 That Prince..is join'd by one of the most powerful Omrahs of the Country. 1862 Beveridge Hist. India I. iii. xii. 658 The nabob had made him an omrah of the empire without a jaghire. |