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‖ padishah, padshah|ˈpɑːdɪʃɑː, ˈpɑːdʃɑː| Forms: 6 padenshawe, 7 padasha, (potshaugh, -shaw), pad(i)schach, 7, 9 padischah, 8 padeshah, -shau, 9 padichaw, padisha, 8– padishah, padshah. [a. Pers. pādshāh, in poetry pādĕ-, pādĭshah (in Turkish pādishāh):—Pahlavi pātaχšā or pātaχšāh:—OPers. *pātiχšāyaθiya, f. pati = Skr. pati master, lord, ruler + šāh king, shah. (P. Horn Grundr. Neupers. Etymol. 1893.)] A Persian title, taken as equivalent to ‘Great King’ or ‘Emperor’; applied in Persia to the Shah, in Europe usually to the Sultan of Turkey, in India (where often pronounced bādshāh) to the Great Mogul, and (before 1948) by natives to the sovereign of Great Britain as Emperor of India; also extended by Orientals to other European monarchs.
1612E.I.C. Letters (ed. Danvers) I. 175 He acknowledges no Padenshawe or King in Christendom but the Portugals King. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 543 This Selim Padasha rebelled against his father Ekher. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 103 The Grand Signior rather hath in later times vsed the title of Padischah Musulmin i. Great King of the Musulmans..and they call the German Emperor Urum Padischah, the French King Frank Padischah. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 97 At the end sate the Potshaugh or great King [the Shah of Persia]. 1665Ibid. (1677) 211 Here we met the Pot-shaw again. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 341 They [Persians] call their Kings Schach, Padschach, and Padischach. 1757Phil. Trans. L. 180 The word Padishah, or rather Padeshah,..in the old Persic tongue, denoting King. 1800Hull Advertiser 30 Aug. 4/2 Recognized by several Hindoos..to be ‘Padshaw’, i.e. the King. 1823Byron Juan vi. xxxix, Whom, if they were at home in sweet Circassia, They would prefer to Padisha or Pacha. 1896Peterson's Mag. Jan. 47/1 The Padishah [Sultan] is supposed to speak no language but Turkish or Arabic. |