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pasha

Bashaw \Ba*shaw"\, n. [See Pasha.]

  1. A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.

  2. Fig.: A magnate or grandee.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) A very large siluroid fish ( Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pasha

Turkish honorary title formerly given to officers of high rank, 1640s, from Turkish pasha, earlier basha, from bash "head, chief" (no clear distinction between -b- and -p- in Turkish), from Old Persian pati- "master," from PIE *poti- (see potent) + root of shah. Earlier in English as bashaw (1530s).

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pasha

n. (context historical English) A high-ranking Turkish military officer, especially as a commander or regional governor; the highest honorary title during the Ottoman Empire.

WordNet
pasha

n. a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt [syn: pacha]

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Pasha (disambiguation)

Pasha is the name of a high rank in Ottoman politics.

Pasha may also refer to:

Biology:
  • Herona marathus, a brush-footed butterfly commonly known as the Pasha
  • a number of brush-footed butterflies in the genus Charaxes
  • Pasha (protein), a protein involved in microRNA processing
Names:
  • Paşa (disambiguation), common Turkish surname
  • Pasha (surname), common Pakistani surname
  • Pasha, a Slavic diminutive form of the given name Pavel (which is equivalent to the English "Paul")
Transportation:
  • Pasha, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive.
  • MV Pasha Bulker, a bulk carrier that ran aground at Newcastle, Australia in 2007
Geography
  • Pasha River, a river in Leningrad Oblast, Russia
  • Pasha-e Olya, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
  • Pasha-e Sofla, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
  • "Pasha enclaves", an informal name for Chitmahals, Indo-Bangladesh enclaves
Other uses:
  • PASHA Holding, an Azerbaijani finance and investment group with interests in banking, insurance, construction, and travel based in Baku
  • Pasha Kovalev, Russian dancer from the shows So You Think You Can Dance and '' Strictly Come Dancing
  • Pasha (Hinduism), an attribute of the Hindu god Ganesha
  • Paskha (dish) (Russian: Пасха), spelled Pasha in Finnish
  • Pasha (Quran), a parsha in the Quran
Pasha (Hinduism)

Pasha , often translated as " noose" or "lasso", is a supernatural weapon depicted in Hindu iconography. Hindu deities such as Ganesha, Yama and Varuna are depicted with the pasha in their hands.

Pasha is a common attribute of Ganesha, the Lord of obstacles; a pasha represents his power to bind and free obstacles. Yama, the god of death, uses the Pasha to extract a soul from a being's body at the time of death. In sculpture, it is depicted as two or three bound into one or a double loop.

The Sanskrit word "pasha" originally meant "knot" or "loop". In general usage, the pasha is used to bind a foe's arms and legs or for hunting animals. Pasha represents worldly attachment as well as power of a deity to capture and bind evil and ignorance. Ananda Coomaraswamy explores the connection of pasha to worldly bonds.

In the Shaiva Siddhanta school of Hinduism, pasha is part of the trinity Pati-pashu-pasha, meaning "Master, animal, tether", symbolizing God, man and world. Pati is God as Shiva, the patron god of the sect. Pashu is the soul or man. Pasha is the power of Shiva by which leads souls to the Truth or the power of his maya (illusion) by which entices "unenlightened" beings.

Pasha (Quran)

A pasha , in the Quran or other Islamic holy books, is a delineated section of a book that was often thought to originally be a separate scroll. The plural in Arabic is al-pashawat. The word pasha comes from the Hebrew parashah, which refers to part of a biblical book.

Pasha

Pasha or pascha , formerly anglicized as bashaw, was a higher rank in the Ottoman Empire political and military system, typically granted to governors, generals, dignitaries and others. As an honorary title, Pasha, in one of its various ranks, is similar to a British peerage or knighthood, and was also one of the highest titles in pre-republican Egypt. There were three ranks of pashas: the first, or highest class, had the privilege of bearing a standard of three horse-tails, the second of two, and the third of one.

Pasha (surname)

Pasha is also an honorary title and now surname of Muslim elites in South Asia.

Pasha (film)

Pasha is a 1968 French crime film directed by Georges Lautner and starring Jean Gabin.

The film is based on the novel Pouce by Jean Laborde. Filming began on 14 November 1967 and ended in December the same year.

It was released on 14 March 1968.

Usage examples of "pasha".

Carnia were up in arms, that numerous bands of robbers had descended from the mountains of Ziccola and Agrapha, and had made their appearance on the other side of the gulf, they resolved to proceed by water to Prevesa, and having presented an order which they had received from Ali Pasha, for the use of his galliot, she was immediately fitted out to convey them.

And yet he felt ashamed that he, as pasha, had not the courage to order a halt, to strike the knives from the hands of the agas.

Pasha back, had she not joined the volunteers and walked off God knows where and got blown up and had her leg broken, she and Dasha would have left with Deda and Babushka for Molotov.

He even boldly offered to tell the pasha where half his own ill-gotten gains were hid, if he would let the bimbashi go.

In the first place they were wholly incompatible: the Vizier despised Omar Pasha as an illiterate brute and the Dey despised the Vizier as a cotquean, in spite of his numerous harem, his collection of guns and his status as an important shareholder in the larger associations of corsairs.

In front of our narrow footholds the Turks, amounting to 200,000 men, held positions rising to over 700 feet at Achi Baba and Pasha Dagh, and defended by masses of artillery and machine and elaborate systems of trenches upon which the big guns from our ships appeared to have little effect.

It seemed too wonderful to be true--a free hand in Egypt, and under Imshi Pasha, the one able Minister of them all, who had, it was said, always before resisted the irrigation schemes of the foreigners, who believed only in the corroee and fate!

All at once the suspicion struck him: Imshi Pasha had sent the girl--to try him perhaps, to gain power over him maybe, as women had gained power over strong men before.

But why should Imshi Pasha send the girl and his mouffetish on this miserable mission?

Dimsdale was angry for a moment, and he said some hard words of Imshi Pasha as he watched the two decoys hurry away into the dusk.

He realised that Imshi Pasha had given him his hand that he might ruin himself, that his own schemes might overwhelm him in the end.

At every turn he had been frustrated--by Imshi Pasha: three years of underground circumvention, with a superficial approval and a mock support.

IV When he woke again it was to find at his bedside a kavass from Imshi Pasha at Cairo.

Dimsdale answered in kind, with a touch of plaintive humour, letting the envelope fall from his fingers on the bed, so little was he interested in any fresh move of Imshi Pasha.

He caught up the glass of champagne and dashed it upon the fine prayer-rug which Shelek Pasha had, with a kourbash, collected for taxes from a Greek merchant back from Tiflis--the rug worth five hundred English pounds, the taxes but twenty Turkish pounds.