Mirza

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈmɪəzÉ™/, /ˈməːzÉ™/

Origin

From Persian میرزا.

Full definition of mirza

Noun

1. (now historical) An educated man in India or Iran; 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 2010, p. 46:This he presented to the Khan of Puhra, who called upon his mirza, or clerk, to read it aloud.