Pasha Definition

pəzhä, päzhə, pazhə
noun
In the Ottoman Empire,
Webster's New World
Used formerly as a title for military and civil officers, especially in Turkey and northern Africa.
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Noun

Singular:
pasha
Plural:
pashas

Origin of Pasha

  • From Ottoman Turkish پاشا (pāšā) (Turkish paÅŸa); this either from Persian پادشاه (pādšāh, “padishah, king"), or from Turkish baÅŸ (“head"), or from Turkish beÅŸe (“boy, prince"), this in turn from Persian بچّه (bačče).

    From Wiktionary

  • Turkish paşa from Persian pādshāh Padishah

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pasha Sentence Examples

  • Ali Pasha then joined his master at Kossovo.

  • In 1832 it was taken by the Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha.

  • In the outskirts is a village of Africans from the Sudan - a curious remnant of the forces collected by Ali Pasha.

  • Larissa was the headquarters of Ali Pasha during the Greek War of Independence, and of the crown prince Constantine during the Greco-Turkish War; the flight of the Greek army from this place to Pharsala took place on the 23rd of April 1897.

  • Since the time of Ali Pasha, who broke the power of the local chieftains, southern Albania has been subject to the central Turkish power; before that period the mountaineers of Suli and Khimara enjoyed an independence similar to that of the Gheg tribes.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAS

Words Ending With

AHASHA

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Words Starting With P and Ending With A

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