[pah-shuh, pash-uh, puh-shah, -shaw] 
| a title, placed after the name, formerly held by high officials in countries under Turkish rule. |
| pa·sha also pa·cha (pä'shə, pāsh'ə, pə-shä') n. Used formerly as a title for military and civil officers, especially in Turkey and northern Africa. [Turkish paşa, from Persian pādshāh; see Padishah.] |
pasha
title of a man of high rank or office in the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. It was the highest official title of honour in the Ottoman Empire, always used with a proper name, which it followed. It was given to soldiers and high civil officials, not to men of religion, and was purely personal and not hereditary, except in 19th-century Egypt. Very occasionally in early times it was applied to a woman; Validepasha was the title of the mother of the pasha of Egypt.
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