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bashaw

/bəˈʃɔː/

bashaw noun: a pasha.

Noun

bashaw (plural bashaws)

  1. (archaic, historical) A pasha.
    • Radzivilius was much taken with the bassa’s palace in Cairo […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
    • The Bashaw notwithstanding drew together a partie of five hundred before his owne Pallace, where he intended to die […].1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 44
  2. (archaic, broadly, derogatory, often) A grandee.
  3. A very large siluroid fish (Pylodictis olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; the goujon or mudcat.

Proper noun capitalized: Bashaw

Bashaw (plural Bashaws)

  1. A surname.

bashaw meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

bashaw in Tamil

முகாமையர்

bashaw in Urdu

مغرور شخص, پاشا

bashaw in Bengali

যিনি গাধার ডাক ডাকেন

Examples of bashaw in a sentence

  • he fancies himself in company with beautiful women; he dreams that he is an emperor, or a bashaw, and that the world is at his nod.1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, London, page 79:
  • Insecure about his infirmity, the Bashaw decreed that all who desired to come into his presence must first submit to having their eyes put out.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 7:

Forms of bashaw

Noun
pluralbashaws
alternative formbassa
alternative formbassaw
Proper noun
pluralBashaws

Origin of bashaw

Variant of pasha, several forms or relatives of which start with /b-/, e.g. Arabic بَاشَا (bāšā).

Words formed from bashaw

Words that rhyme with bashaw

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Questions about bashaw

What does bashaw mean?
Bashaw means a pasha.
What is bashaw in Tamil?
Bashaw in Tamil is முகாமையர். See Bashaw meaning in Tamil.
How do you use bashaw in a sentence?
he fancies himself in company with beautiful women; he dreams that he is an emperor, or a bashaw, and that the world is at his nod.
What part of speech is bashaw?
Bashaw can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bashaw?
Bashaw is pronounced /bəˈʃɔː/.
What is the plural of bashaw?
The plural of bashaw is bashaws.

Words near bashaw in the dictionary

  1. Bashams
  2. Bashan
  3. Bashandy
  4. Bashar
  5. bashas
  6. bashaw
  7. bashawism
  8. bashaws
  9. bashawship
  10. bashed
  11. bashed about

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bashaw (page history and authors); Bashaw (page history and authors); bashaw (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bashaw (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bashaw (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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