The rank, office, or position of a bashaw; the title or authority held by a bashaw in Ottoman governance.
From 'bashaw' + Old English '-ship' (office, rank). Created in English during the 1600s-1700s to describe Ottoman administrative positions.
English created '-ship' compounds for ranks it understood (kingship, lordship) and applied the same logic to foreign titles, so 'bashawship' let English speakers conceptually fit Ottoman officials into their own hierarchy.
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