noun

• 1

  (also pacha)

  historical The title of a Turkish officer of high rank.

  ‘That he even has a library sets him apart from most high-tech pashas.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Another example would be the glitter of metal: the image adds a connotation of cruelty to the glory of a pasha, previously described with true oriental bombast, as the light of lights.’
  • ‘The pasha of Tripoli soon agreed, in exchange for a sixty-thousand-dollar payment, to release the American prisoners and to commit no further acts of piracy against American vessels.’
  • ‘He was appointed Minister of Public Works in 1869, retired shortly after, received the grand title of pasha in 1873 and died in Cairo in 1883.’
  • ‘Promoted to the rank of pasha in April 1916, he was virtually exiled by his Young Turk rivals to the eastern front.’
• 2

  (also two-tailed pasha)

  A large orange-brown butterfly with two tails on each hindwing and complex patterns on the underwings, occurring around the Mediterranean and in Africa.

  Charaxes jasius, subfamily Nymphalinae, family Nymphalidae

  ‘The Two-Tailed Pasha is the largest European butterfly, with the fore-wing span of the female often measuring more than 4 inches.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The Two-tailed Pasha is one of Europe’s most spectacular butterflies.’