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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--pasha This week's theme: words for bosses, officials, and leaders. pasha (PA-shuh, PASH-uh, puh-SHAH) noun A person of high rank or importance. [From Turkish pasa, from Persian padshah, from pati (master) + shah (king). Pasha was used as a title of high-ranking officials in the Ottoman Empire.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The rise and rise of Ajay Bijli as the pasha of Indian multiplexes is born out of his passion for motion pictures." Moinak Mitra & Shubham Mukherjee; Sundowner with Ajay Bijli; The Economic Times (New Delhi, India); Oct 6, 2007. X-Bonus I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

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