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bassaw

bassaw is the obsolete form of bashaw.

Meaning of bashaw

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...
  2. (archaic, broadly, derogatory, often) A grandee.
  3. A very large siluroid fish (Pylodictis olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; the goujon or mudcat.

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Forms of bassaw

pluralbassaws

Questions about bassaw

What is bassaw the obsolete form of?
Bassaw is the obsolete form of bashaw.

Words near bassaw in the dictionary

  1. bassarisk
  2. bassarisks
  3. bassas
  4. Bassatne
  5. Bassatnes
  6. bassaw
  7. bassaws
  8. bassbar
  9. bassbars
  10. bassboat
  11. bassboats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bassaw (page history and authors); bashaw (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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