Pacha

or Pasha, (pūsh'aw.) [From Pers. padi Shah, the foot of the Shah.] The military governor ofa Turkish province. The more distinguished of the pa chas have three horsetails carried before them; the inferior, two. Though the P. is appointed and removed at the will of the Sultan, his power is very great, and the provincial administration is in his hands. This word was formerly written bash aro. [s. 676]