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Bashaw

//bəˈʃɔː// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A pasha. archaic, historical

    "Radzivilius was much taken with the bassa’s palace in Cairo […]."

  2. 2
    A grandee. archaic, broadly, derogatory, often
  3. 3
    A very large siluroid fish (Pylodictis olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; the goujon or mudcat.

Etymology

Variant of pasha, several forms or relatives of which start with /b-/, e.g. Arabic بَاشَا (bāšā).

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