mirza

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Etymology

From Persian میرزا (mirzâ).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɪəzə/, /ˈməːzə/

Noun

mirza (plural mirzas)

  1. (historical) An educated man in India or Iran (Persia); an official, a clerk.
    • 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, published 2010, page 46:
      This he presented to the Khan of Puhra, who called upon his mirza, or clerk, to read it aloud.

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