bimbashin.
/bɪmˈbaʃi/, /bɪmˈbɑːʃi/, U.S. /bɪmˈbæʃi/ A Turkish major, naval commander, or squadron-leader. Also formerly in Egypt, an English officer in the service of the Khedive.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > officer of other specific ranks > specifically in foreign armies
turcopolier1481
marshal?a1560
sergeant-general of battle1685
anspessade1697
regimentary1731
sub-commandant1798
sotnik1799
bimbashi1819
toxarch1828
Junker1843
Standartenführer1933
Reichsführer1935
Sturmbannführer1955
1819 T. Hope Anastasius II. xv. 329 A Bimbashee [note Turkish colonel], with about eighteen hundred men.
1876 W. E. Gladstone Bulgarian Horrors 31 Their Bimbashis and their Yuzbachis, their Kaimakams and their Pashas.
1896 Daily News 28 Mar. 5/3 ‘Bimbashi’ is the general name for the English officers attached to the Egyptian army.
1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 197 He did not know that Wake..would be a bimbashi of the Egyptian Army ere his thirtieth year.
1922 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 519/1 Let me be the Bimbashi of the Hakim's river watchers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1819- to make it worth a person's while
- to make it worth while
- to make its point
- to make its way
- to make joy
- to make keep a vow
- to make kef
- to make kythe force
- to make labour
- to make labour to
- to make labour to a person
- to make languor
- to make larder of
- to make latin
- to make latins
- to make lavish
- to make leap year of
- to make leg bail
- to make leg-payments
- to make legpayments
- to make let force
- to make life a misery
- to make light of
- to make light work of
- to make like