izzat

noun

1. Honour, pride; reputation.

   uncountable

   ‘But whether the native swaggers or cringes there's always something behind every remark he makes, always something, and if nothing else he's trying to increase his izzat – in plain Anglo-Saxon, to score.’

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Hindustani عِزَّت ('izzat) / इज़्ज़त (izzat), from Classical Persian عِزَّت (izzat), from Arabic عِزَّة (ʕizza).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry izzat (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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