mirza
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mirza (plural mirzas)
- (historical) An educated man in India or Iran (Persia); an official, a clerk. [from 16th c.]
- 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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