pacha
Britishnoun
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Mr. Hood invites him, when he visits Iraq again, to sit down together to eat pacha — a typical Iraqi dish of stuffed sheep intestines.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
The next few months she passed at Damascus, protected by the Turkish pacha, to whom the Porte had highly recommended her.
From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
This officer is, at the same time, the local head of the Mussulman religion; so that his countrymen consider him, in this foreign land, at once their pacha and their mufti.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
"One description of the city that I have read makes it forty miles, another twenty-six, and three others make it twenty miles," added the pacha; "and I suppose the last is the right distance."
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by A. B. Shute
The pacha looked indolent and good-natured, and sent coffee to her before she disembarked at Syra.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
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