different between pash vs pasha

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

Clipping of passion.

Verb

pash (third-person singular simple present pashes, present participle pashing, simple past and past participle pashed)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To snog, to make out, to kiss.
   • 2003, Andrew Daddo, You’re Dropped!, ?ISBN, unnumbered page,

     ‘You gonna pash her?’

     ‘We only just started going together,’ I said. Pash her? Already? I hadn’t even kissed a girl properly yet.

     ‘Do you know how to pash?’ It sounded like a challenge. Jed Wall was a bit like that. When he wasn’t just hanging he was fighting or pashing or something that no one else was good at.

   • 2005, Gabrielle Morrissey, Urge: Hot Secrets For Great Sex, HarperCollins Publishers (Australia), unnumbered page,

     There are hundreds of different types of kisses; and there are kissing Kamasutras available in bookshops to help you add variety to your pashing repertoire.

Noun

pash (plural pashes)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A passionate kiss.
   • 2003, Frances Whiting, Oh to Be a Marching Girl, page 18,

     Anyway, the point is, my first pash — or snog, or whatever you want to call it — was so bloody awful it’s a miracle I ever opened my mouth again.

2. A romantic infatuation; a crush.
   • 1988, Catherine Cookson, Bill Bailey’s Daughter, in 1997, Bill Bailey: An Omnibus, page 166,

     ‘It isn’t a pash. Nancy Burke’s got a pash on Mr Richards and Mary Parkin has a pash on Miss Taylor, and so have other girls. But I haven’t got a pash on Rupert. It isn’t like that. I know it isn’t. I know it isn’t.’

   • 2002, Thelma Ruck Keene, The Handkerchief Drawer: An Autobiography in Three Parts, page 92,

     Not until the outcome of Denise’s pash did I admit that my pash on Joan had been very different.

   • 2010, Gwyneth Daniel, A Suitable Distance, page 82,

     At school it was called a pash. Having a pash on big handsome Robin, who used to cycle up to the village in his holidays from boarding school, and smile at her. She still had a pash on Robin. He still smiled at her.

3. The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
4. Any obsession or passion.

Synonyms

• (kiss): snog (UK)

Etymology 2

Scots word for the pate, or head.

Noun

pash (plural pashes)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A crushing blow.
2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A heavy fall of rain or snow.
3. (obsolete) The head.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act I, Scene ii,

     Leo[ntes]: Thou want??t a rough pa?h, & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:

Etymology 3

Probably of imitative origin, or possibly akin to box (“to fight with the fists”).

Verb

pash (third-person singular simple present pashes, present participle pashing, simple past and past participle pashed)

1. (dialect) To throw (or be thrown) and break.
2. To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.

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   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XII:

     [...] 'tis a brute must walk / Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.

Anagrams

• HSAP, HSPA, PAHs, PHAs, SAHP, Shap, haps, hasp, pahs, psha

English

Alternative forms

• pascha
• bashaw

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (p?š?) (Turkish pa?a); this either from Persian ??????? (p?dš?h, “padishah, king”), or from Ottoman Turkish ???? (ba?, “head”), or from Ottoman Turkish ????? (beççe, “male offspring”), this in turn from Persian ????? (ba??e). Ottoman Turkish ???? (ba?, “head”) + Ottoman Turkish ???? (a?a, “master”) has also been proposed as etymon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæ??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p???/

Noun

pasha (plural pashas)

1. (historical) A high-ranking Turkish military officer, especially as a commander or regional governor; the highest honorary title during the Ottoman Empire.
2. The Indian butterfly Herona marathus, family Nymphalidae.

Related terms

• pashalik

Translations

References

Anagrams

• ASAHP, Asaph, hapas

Finnish

Etymology 1

From Russian ?????? (pásxa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?s.h?/, [?p?s?.??]
• Rhymes: -?s.h?
• Syllabification: pas?ha

Noun

pasha

1. paskha (traditional Eastern Orthodox dessert, eaten especially in Easter).

Declension

Etymology 2

From Turkish pa?a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p????/, [?p????]

Noun

pasha

1. Alternative spelling of pašša

Declension

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-pasha (infinitive kupasha)

1. Causative form of -pata: to cause to get
2. (especially in "pasha moto") to warm up
3. to inform, to tell
4. to be completely colored

Conjugation