izzatn.

1857 H. Lawrence Let. 26 Feb. in Edwardes & Merivale Life Sir H. Lawrence (1872) II. xviii. 279 Man can but die once, and if I die in Oude, after having saved some poor fellow's hearths, or skins, or izzut (reputation), I shall have no reason for discontent.

1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 207 Thou hast done great wrong, and altogether lost thy izzat and thy reputation.

1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 215 ‘But I am no goatherd,’ said Faiz Ullah. ‘It is against my izzat [my honour].’

1922 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 201/1 Izzat, too, generally prescribes that he should be an hour or two late.

1923 R. Kipling Land & Sea Tales 226 It is my izzat—my honour.

1924 E. M. Forster Passage to India iii. 31 The educated native..[is] trying to increase his izzat—in plain Anglo-Saxon, to score.

1953 E. M. Forster Hill of Devi 27 In every remark and gesture, does not the Indian prince either decrease his own ‘izzat’ or that of his interlocutor?

1968 J. Barzun Amer. Univ. (1969) viii. 252 We saw how much faculties want presidents ‘prestigious’. I suggest that instead of prestige we use the Hindi word izzat and see how absurd we are: ‘Has he izzat? Have we enough izzat in the house? Our friends across the way are getting ahead of us in izzat.’ Newspapers could then rank institutions izzat-wise.