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Bashaw vs Basha - What's the difference?

bashaw | basha |

As nouns the difference between bashaw and basha

is that bashaw is while basha is a tarpaulin or plastic waterproof sheet.

bashaw

English

Alternative forms

* bassa * bassaw (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • *, II.2.4:
    • Radzivilius was much taken with the bassa ’s palace in Cairo […].
  • * 1630 , , True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p. 44:
    • The Bashaw notwithstanding drew together a partie of five hundred before his owne Pallace, where he intended to die […].
  • * 1809 , James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco , London 1809, p. 79:
    • he fancies himself in company with beautiful women; he dreams that he is an emperor, or a bashaw , and that the world is at his nod.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 7:
  • *:Insecure about his infirmity, the Bashaw decreed that all who desired to come into his presence must first submit to having their eyes put out.
  • A very large siluroid fish () of the Mississippi valley; the goujon or mudcat.

    • basha

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tarpaulin or plastic waterproof sheet.
  • A makeshift shelter made from the above.