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means A high-ranking title placed before the name of a senior official, military commander, or governor in the Ottoman Empire (and later, informally, for anyone who swans around acting important).

from Borrowed into English from Turkish 'paşa,' itself likely descended from an older Persian-Turkish compound related to 'bash' (head) or possibly 'padishah' (great ruler) — scholars aren't fully settled on the exact root, though the 'head/chief' connection is the leading theory. The title was bestowed on governors, generals, and other Ottoman grandees, typically tacked on after conquest or appointment, so the word itself traveled through empire-building before it ever reached English drawing rooms as a byword for a strutting bigwig.