Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pasha.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pasha . - noun A grandee; an important personage; a bigwig.
- noun The mud-cat, Leptops olivaris.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Turkish title of honor, now written
pasha . Seepasha . - noun Fig.: A magnate or grandee.
- noun (Zoöl.) A very large siluroid fish (
Leptops olivaris ) of the Mississippi valley; -- also calledgoujon ,mud cat , andyellow cat .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A very large
siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of theMississippi valley ; thegoujon ormudcat .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Veil, sir, I'm vot they calls a bashaw of the pigs -- but I'm more than that."
The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915
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In the confidence of victory, they boasted that the whole Turkish power must have yielded to their arms; but the admiral, or captain bashaw, found some consolation for a painful wound in his eye, by representing that accident as the cause of his defeat.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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In the royal presence, the captain bashaw was extended on the ground by four slaves, and received one hundred strokes with a golden rod: 46 his death had been pronounced; and he adored the clemency of the sultan, who was satisfied with the milder punishment of confiscation and exile.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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[FN#178] The Arab. form (our old "bashaw") of the Turk.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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chained_bear commented on the word bashaw
"'Not to know the odds between a halliard and a sheet, after all these years at sea: it passes human understanding,' said Jack.
"'You are a reasonably civil, complaisant creature on dry land,' said Stephen, but the moment you are afloat you become pragmatical and absolute, a bashaw — do this, do that, gluppit the prawling strangles, there — no longer a social being at all. It is no doubt the effect of the long-continued habit of command; but it cannot be considered amiable.'
"Diana said nothing: she had a considerable experience and she knew that if men were to be at all tolerable they must be fed..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War, p. 272
February 6, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word bashaw
A Sea of Words: A grandee, a haughty, imperious man. From the title of rulers of Barbary Coast countries. (p. 102) Usage on firman.
October 13, 2008
madmouth commented on the word bashaw
var. of pasha
June 19, 2009
bilby commented on the word bashaw
Variant in the English rendering or in the source tongue(s)?
June 19, 2009
madmouth commented on the word bashaw
in the English (I saw it in Moby-Dick and then there are the works cited below). OE says it's the earlier form.
ETA: I suspect -aw is a way of expressing the contrast in length that is inherent in that word in its original language; the unadorned 'a' is short whereas 'aw' is long (according to English orthography). not true; they're both long in the original Persian, which is pa:dʃa: in IPA. this word appears in Urdu as baadshah (king); -ah and -aw, therefore, both serve in English transliterations of long 'a'.
June 19, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word bashaw
"I was most curious to know why the woman had not been better treated—she, the wife of a member of the Petit-Parliament, a Bashaw!"
Under the Harrow by Mark Dunn, p 34
September 1, 2011