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bimbashi|bɪmˈbɑːʃɪ, -æ-|
Also bimbashee, binbashi.
[Turk., lit. ‘one who is head of a thousand’ (bin thousand, baş head; cf. bashaw).]
A Turkish major, naval commander, or squadron-leader. Also formerly in Egypt, an English officer in the service of the Khedive.
1819T. Hope Anastasius II. xv. 329 A Bimbashee [note Turkish colonel], with about eighteen hundred men. 1876Gladstone Bulgarian Horrors 31 Their Bimbashis and their Yuzbachis, their Kaimakams and their Pashas. 1896Daily News 28 Mar. 5/3 ‘Bimbashi’ is the general name for the English officers attached to the Egyptian army. 1899Kipling Stalky 197 He did not know that Wake..would be a bimbashi of the Egyptian Army ere his thirtieth year. 1922Blackw. Mag. Apr. 519/1 Let me be the Bimbashi of the Hakim's river watchers. |