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‖ subashi|suːˈbɑːʃɪ| Forms: 6 subbassi, 6–7 subassi, 7 subashie, -sha, subbashaw, -bassawe, -bassa, sou-bashi, sous-basha, 8 sous-bachi, 9 soo-bashee, subasche, súbáshi. [Turkish sūbāshī and çūbāshī, f. çū water + bāsh head, chief. (Some of the Eng. forms indicate an attempt to analyse the word as sub- 6 + bashaw.)] A Turkish official in command of a district or village; a ‘police magistrate under the timariot system’ (Redhouse).
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 106 Y⊇ Subassi, & the Meniwe, with the Padre guardian. Ibid. 292 The Admirall..appointeth the Subbassas. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 302 The Cadi and Subassi, if they finde any shops open, or any body eating in the day, set him on an Asse backwards. 1615Sandys Trav. 63 The Subashie is as the Constable of a Citie, both to search out and punish offences. 1632Lithgow Trav. iv. 136 In this Prison, are Bassawes, and Sub⁓bassawes imprisoned. 1687Sous-basha [see sous-]. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2336/5 The Sub-Bassa of this City. 1718Ozell tr. Tournefort's Voy. II. 279, I promis'd them to pay the Tax for them, if the Sous-Bachi shou'd demand it. 1819T. Hope Anast. (1820) II. 377 A Tchawoosh..summoned me before the Soo-bashee. 1823–4Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XV. 509 A Jerí-báshí (Captain), Jerí-surejí (Corporal), and Súbáshí (Sergeant)..who have particular lands assigned to them on which they are obliged to reside. 1847Mrs. A. Kerr tr. Ranke's Hist. Servia 115 In the villages, Subasches appeared as executors of the judicial and magisterial power. |