mirza

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian میرزا (mirzâ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mirza (plural mirzas)

  1. (now historical) An educated man in India or Iran; an official, a clerk. [from 16th c.]
    • 1788, Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, VI.65:
      The same success attended the other mirzas and emirs in their excursions.
    • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 46:
      This he presented to the Khan of Puhra, who called upon his mirza, or clerk, to read it aloud.

Anagrams

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