Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Persian title.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.
Etymologies
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Examples
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While Goly Nassiri-Masouleh works the front of this equally homey Rogers Park restaurant, her husband, Azim, works the kitchen, laboring over regional dishes such as mirza ghasemi, roasted eggplant stewed with tomato and garlic.
Chicago Reader 2010
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While Goly Nassiri-Masouleh works the front of the house, her husband, Azim, works the kitchen, laboring over regional dishes such as mirza ghasemi, roasted eggplant stewed with tomato and garlic.
Chicago Reader 2010
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While Goly Nassiri-Masouleh works the front of this equally homey Rogers Park restaurant, her husband, Azim, works the kitchen, laboring over regional dishes such as mirza ghasemi, roasted eggplant stewed with tomato and garlic.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Rogers Park restaurant, her husband, Azim, works the kitchen, laboring over regional dishes such as mirza ghasemi, roasted eggplant stewed with tomato and garlic.
Chicago Reader 2010
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While Goly Nassiri-Masouleh works the front of this equally homey Rogers Park restaurant, her husband, Azim, works the kitchen, laboring over regional dishes such as mirza ghasemi, roasted eggplant stewed with tomato and garlic.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Burnes used the term secretary as a translation for mirza, and it is important to note that Macnaughten was designated as the Secretary to the Governor General of India before becoming the Envoy and Ambassador to Shuja's government during the first British occupation.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Muhammad Akbar carried a parwana or order from Nur Muhammad written in Persian by a mirza Abd al-Rahman assigned to the case.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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The divisions found in and between the diwan, sarishtadar, and mirza categories were often created and perpetuated by the individuals and alliances operating in the political realm, i.e., among the officials and office-holders who were both the instigators and targets of the audits.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Note 5: See "Information Received by Peshawar Merchants Which Makes Them Cease Trade With Bokhara," NAI, Foreign Secret F, June 1889, Proceeding Nos. 142 – 55, in which we find the person in charge of awqaf or religious endowments funds, Muhammad Ismail Khan, as the subject of a mirza audit.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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It deals with the question of whether the kinds of textual literacy necessary to function as an accountant for a Shikarpuri or Peshawri firm would have sufficiently enabled those with such knowledge and skills to function as a diwan or sarishtadar or mirza for the Durrani state.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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