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pa⋅di⋅shah

  [pah-di-shah, -shaw]
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–noun
(often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied esp. formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).
Origin:
1605–15; < Pers (poetical form), equiv. to pādi- (earlier pati) lord + shāh shah
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Pa·di·shah   (pä'dĭ-shä')   
n.  
  1. Used formerly as a title for the monarch of Iran.
  2. Used formerly as a title for the sultan of Turkey.

[Persian pādshāh : Old Persian pati-, master; see poti- in Indo-European roots + Persian shāh, king; see shah.]
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Padishah

Pa`di*shah"\, n. [Per. p[=a]dish[=a]h. Cf. Pasha.] Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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