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词汇 Khedive
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Definition of Khedive in English:

Khedive

noun kɪˈdiːv
  • The title of the viceroy of Egypt under Turkish rule 1867–1914.

    赫迪夫(1867-1914年土耳其统治下的埃及总督的称号)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Disraeli's purchase of the shares of the Khedive of Egypt in the Suez Canal Company was a further blow to the French, who had not forgotten that Great Britain had displaced French power in Canada and India in the eighteenth century.
    • It was French culture and French institutions which the Khedives had tried to adopt.
    • To the south of Mohammed Ali's Mosque is his ‘Jewel Palace’, the Qasr el-Gawhara, which was used as a museum for the jewels of the Khedives after the 1952 revolution.
    • Part of the Ottoman Empire from 1517, it became practically autonomous under the rule of the Khedives during the nineteenth century.
    • He was the Governor and then the Khedive of Egypt from January 19, 1863 to June 26, 1879.
    • He finally declared Egypt as an autonomous state under the Ottoman sovereignty, and started a dynasty of Khedives and Kings that lasted for over a century.
    • On display are the royal trains of the Khedives and their magnificent carriages.
    • His son Tawfik Pasha succeeded him as the Khedive of Egypt.
    • Further inside is the white marble tomb of Bambah Qadin, and behind this the tomb of Khedive Tawfik.
    • The Cataract was opened in 1899 in a ceremony attended by Abbas Helmy, the Khedive of Egypt, as well as by British dignitaries such as a son of Queen Victoria, Winston Churchill and Lord and Lady Cromer.
    • The Khedive also supported academic journals, including one that aided the spread of science and scholarship among Egyptians.
    • The whole 6,000 paraded in their battalions and marched past the Khedive and their country's flag.
    • This train was only built for the use of Khedive, Saiid Pasha.
    • In 1875 Disraeli bought the Khedive's large holding in the shares of the company which ran the canal.

Derivatives

  • Khedival

  • adjective
    • Instead, the work that opened the new Khedival opera house in Cairo on November 1, 1869, was Verdi's earlier opera Rigoletto.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • On July 1, 1913, a Legislative Assembly was created by Khedival decree.
      • He graduated at the age of 18 with a degree in law from the Khedival School and later occupied a high military rank in Isma'il's army.
      • Mitchell has written on the use of urban planning to create new hierarchies of power under Khedival rule in the nineteenth century and then under direct British colonial administration.
      • It stands opposite the grand mosque of Sultan Hasan as an attempt of the Khedival family to measure up to the achievements of the Mamluks.
  • Khedivial

  • adjective
    • In English, the piece is known as the Khedivial hymn.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Khedivial Opera House was the first on the African continent to perform world famous operas and symphonic masterpieces.
      • It premiered at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on 24 December 1871.
      • Contrary to popular belief, the opera was not written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, nor that of the Khedivial Opera House in the same year.
      • In the catalogue of the Khedivial Library mention is made of this Shihab as author of a commentary on Al - Baidhawi.

Origin

Via French from Ottoman Turkish ḵediv, from Persian ḵadiw 'prince' (variant of ḵudaiw 'minor god', from ḵudā 'god').

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