Definition of Sayyids

1. sayyid [n] - See also: sayyid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sayyids

saymaster
saymasters
sayne
sayon
sayonara
sayonaras
sayons
sayrite
says
says me
says who
sayso
sayst
sayth
sayyid
sayyids (current term)
saz
sazeracs
sazes
sazhen
sazhens
sazzes
sbd.
sbirri
sbirro
sbirros
sborgite
sborgites
sc
sc-19220

Literary usage of Sayyids

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ain i Akbari by Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, Henry Blochmann, Henry Sullivan Jarrett (1873)
"Once Mahmúd was asked how many generations backwards the sayyids of Barba traced their descent. Accidentally a fire was burning on the ground near the spot ..."

2. Early Records of British India: A History of the English Settlements in by James Talboys Wheeler (1878)
"... best known as the two sayyids. Farrukh Siyar was reigning as Padishah, or em- made emperor by A powerful grandee, ..."

3. Storia Do Mogor: Or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 by Niccolao Manucci, William Irvine (1907)
"... who are descended from the family of Muhammad, but very remote from the sayyids. This race hold land, and also remain in service at the courts, ..."

4. Settlement Report of the District of Muzaffarnagar: Including a Report on by Alan Cadell (1873)
"But although the sayyids were unquestionably masters, ... The sayyids held the majority of their estates as non-residents, but branches' of the various ..."

5. The Achehnese by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Richard James Wilkinson (1906)
"The daughters of sayyids must thus always wait until fortune sends a sayyid ... And such daughters are not few, for the sayyids are fond of travelling and ..."

6. The Achehnese by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Richard James Wilkinson (1906)
"The daughters of sayyids must thus always wait until fortune sends a sayyid ... And such daughters are not few, for the sayyids are fond of travelling and ..."

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