mirza
Americannoun
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a royal prince (placed after the name when used as a title).
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(a title of honor for men, prefixed to the name).
noun
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a title of respect placed before the surname of an official, scholar, or other distinguished man
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a royal prince: used as a title after a name
Etymology
Origin of mirza
First recorded 1605–15; from Persian mirzā, mīrzā, shortening of amīrzāda ”lord's son,” equivalent to amīr ”lord, chief,” ultimately from Arabic (ʾa)mīr “commander” + native Iranian suffix zā(d) “born”; see origin at emir, kin ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The mother-in-law of the mirza lives at Darmian, and, like a dutiful son, he lingers in her society until nine o'clock next morning.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
A slight ripple upon the smooth and pleasing surface of the universal inclination to do us honor is a sententious controversy between the mirza and a blatant individual who enters objections about killing a sheep.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
Perhaps the Mission wishes a language teacher or a mirza.
From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson
The shivering mudbake, clad chiefly in goose-pimples, now eagerly supplements the khan's proposition for us all to return to Beerjand, and the mirza with equal eagerness murmurs his approval of the same course of action.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
This did not at all please the Russian administrators, and all their subsequent efforts were mainly devoted to the attempt to obtain an alteration of this unimportant personage into the prying and inquisitive mirza.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
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