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pasha

[ UK /pˈæʃɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑʃə, pəˈʃɑ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt

How To Use pasha In A Sentence

  • Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the WN.com - Photown News
  • As Mr. Connelly observes, the dispensers of population-control grants often enjoyed a kind of pasha existence. The War Against Fertility
  • The succeeding days were devoted to a general reconnaissance of the place; but I must say that Roustchouk, although capital of the pashalic of Silistria, and containing thirty or forty thousand inhabitants, pleased me less than any town of its size that I had seen in the East. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
  • Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman WN.com - Articles related to No ‘credible’ gov’t action on massacre — Asia HR group
  • I don't know what your previous guests mentioned about that, but obviously, President Asif Ali Zardari mentioned that he would send G.neral Pasha, D.G. ISI, to India, to assist in the investigation, but then, within 24 hours was told "no" by the army. CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2008
  • Livia settled all things for the succession of her son Tiberius, by continual giving out, that her husband Augustus was upon recovery and amendment, and it is an usual thing with the pashas, to conceal the death of the Great Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to save the sacking of The Essays
  • When Egypt became a Turkish pashalic, Selim, the conqueror, compelled the representative of the Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature
  • Aaschik Pasha, who was a dervis and celebrated ascetic poet in the reign of Murad (Amurath) I. Ahmed, the author of the work, lived during the reign of Bajazet I.., but, he says, derived much information from the book of Scheik Jachshi, the son of Elias, who was I.aum to Sultan History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
  • A petty vizier banishes a bostangi to Lemnos; the vizier Azem banishes the petty vizier to Tenedos; the pasha banishes the vizier Azem to Rhodes; the janissaries imprison the pasha and elect another who will banish the worthy A Philosophical Dictionary
  • See of Benda, the chief town in a district of this name, near Croia, in the pashalik of Scutari. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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