pasha
/ˈpaʃə
/noun
1 (also pacha) historical The title of a Turkish officer of high rank.That he even has a library sets him apart from most high-tech pashas....
- Another example would be the glitter of metal: the image adds a connotation of cruelty to the glory of a pasha, previously described with true oriental bombast, as the light of lights.
- The pasha of Tripoli soon agreed, in exchange for a sixty-thousand-dollar payment, to release the American prisoners and to commit no further acts of piracy against American vessels.
2 (two-tailed pasha) A large orange-brown butterfly with two tails on each hindwing and complex patterns on the underwings, occurring around the Mediterranean and in Africa.
- Charaxes jasius, subfamily Nymphalinae, family Nymphalidae.
- The Two-tailed Pasha is one of Europes most spectacular butterflies.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Turkish paşa, from Pahlavi pati 'lord' + šāh 'shah'.
Rhymes
- photobleaching
- Photoblepharon
- photoblog
- photoblogger
- photoblogging
- photobomb
- photobomber
- photo booth
- photocall
- photo card
- photocatalyse
- photocatalysis
- photocatalytic
- photocatalytically
- photocathode
- photo CD
- photocell
- photoceramic
- photo-ceramist
- photocharger
- photocharging
- photochemic
- photochemical
- photochemically
- photochemical smog