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A begum is a title of respect for a married Muslim woman of high rank, especially in South Asia — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh — and in older writing about those courts. It can stand before a name, a little like Lady in English. History books use it for wives, widows, and daughters of rulers and nobles. It is respectful. It is not a word for any married woman, and it is not a first name on its own, though some families carry it as part of a longer name. The sound is close to beg them, but the meaning is a world away.
貝古姆（南亞穆斯林貴族已婚女性的尊稱）
組成From Classical Persian bēgum, from East Turkic begüm: beg (a title of nobility in Iran, Central Asia and South Asia) + -um (a feminine ending for such titles). Compare Persian khanum, built the same way.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Begumname
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A surname of Bengali usage
Begumnoun
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An honorific title from Central and South Asia, often used by leading women in society.
begumverb詞源 1/bəˈɡʌm/
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To daub or cover with gum.
begumnoun詞源 2/ˈbeɪɡəm/
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a high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in South Asia
- He went to India with his capital, and there, according to a wild legend in our family, he was once seen riding on an elephant, in company with a Baboon; but I think it must have been a Baboo—or a Begum.
- She was the daughter of an English officer, who having fallen in love with an Indian Begum gave up home, country, and friends, and married her.
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the form of address for such a woman
- It was a known fact that an envoy from an Indian Prince, a Colonel Altamont, the Nawaub of Lucknow’s prime favourite, an extraordinary man, who had, it was said, embraced Mahometanism, and undergone a thousand wild and perilous adventures was at present in this country, trying to negotiate with the Begum Clavering, the sale of the Nawaub’s celebrated nose-ring diamond, ‘the light of the Dewan.’
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。