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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mirza \Mir"za\, n. [Per. m[=i]rz[=a], abbrev. fr. m[=i]rz[=a]deh son of the prince; m[=i]r prince (Ar. am[=i]r, em[=i]r) + z[=a]deh son.] The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.
Wiktionary
n. (context now historical English) An educated man in India or Iran; an official, a clerk. (from 16th c.)
Wikipedia
Mirza ( or ) is a historical title of Persian origin, denoting the rank of a high nobleman or Prince. It is usually defined in English as a royal or imperial Prince of the Blood.
Today, Mirza is used as a name to identify patriarchal lineage to royal aristocracies of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent. Historically, it was used as a title by and signified patriarchal lineage to the imperial families of the Turkish Empire, Persia, Circassia, Shirvan, Mughals (aka Moguls) and Muslim Rajputs. It was also a title bestowed upon members of the highest aristocracies in Tatar states, such as the Khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan.
Under Catherine the Great, empress of Russia, the Mirzas gained equal rights with the Russian nobility due to their extreme wealth. In return, the Mirzas financed her Russo-Turkish war against the Ottoman Empire. Abdul Mirza was given the title Prince Yusupov, and his descendant Prince Felix Yusupov married Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, the only niece of Tsar Nicholas II.
Mirza is a Persian royal title.
Mirza may refer to:
- Mirza (genus), the genus of giant mouse lemurs
- Mirza, a song by Nino Ferrer
- Mirza – The Untold Story, a Punjabi action romance film written and directed by Baljit Singh Deo
Usage examples of "mirza".
Mirza Baba Imami from Tabriz, the secret of which he took with him to the grave.
A VULGAR FRACTION Sometimes when, like Mirza, I retire to my little Hill of Bagdad for meditation, there comes before me the bright picture of Hawaii with its coral-bulwarked islands and the memory of an idle sojourn on their shores.
To begin at the beginning: On the morning of his fortieth birthday, in a room full of butterflies, Mirza Saeed Akhtar watched his sleeping wife.
Mirza fumbled in the sleeves of his robe and brought forth a nondescript copperish chain with a blue-green leather-wrapped stone dangling from it.
It was a comparatively new sect -- contemporaneous with Christian Science or the Jehovah's Witnesses -- founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in the Punjab.
It was a comparatively new sect--contemporaneous with Christian Science or the Jehovah's Witnesses--founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in the Punjab.
But Mirza Saeed clearly observed the great glowing cloud fly out over the sea.
This was, in point of fact, the horn of Mirza Saeed's Mercedes-Benz station wagon, which he had driven at high speed through the suffocating side gullies of the suburb, bringing down racks of shirts hanging on rails, and pumpkin barrows, and trays of cheap plastic notions, until he reached the street of basket--workers that intersected the street of bicycle repairers just to the north of the barricade.
Now, at the end of each day, a cluster of pilgrims would congregate around the Mercedes-Benz with its gleaming star, and Mirza Saeed would try and talk sense into them while they watched Sarpanch Muhammad Din raise and lower the mirrorglass rear windows, so that they saw, alternately, his features and their own.
After her speech the Sarpanch and Mirza Saeed were left alone in the station wagon.
Mishal had her carried to her own bedroom, and now Mirza Saeed was obliged to gaze on a second sleeping beauty in that bed, and was stricken for a second time by what seemed too rich and deep a sensation to be called by the crude name, _lust_.