میرزا

• IPA^(key): /mirˈzɑ/

میرزا • (mírzâ) m

1. clerk

• مرزا (merzâ), میرزاد (mirzâd), میرزاده (mirzâde), امیرزاد (amirzâd), امیرزاده (amirzâde)

From earlier میرزاد (mirzâd), compound of میر (mir, “master”) and the suffix ـزاد، ـزاده (-zâd, -zâde, “child of, son of”), from زادن (zâdan, “to bear”).

میرزا • (mirzâ) (plural میرزاها, or میرزایان)

1. (historical) Mirza; a noble title.
2. (dated) clerk, scribe

• In nineteenth-century Iran, میرزا (mirzâ) as a noble title came after the name, and میرزا (mirzâ) as a title for clerks or literates came before the name. In India, the noble title could come on both sides of the name.

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “میرزا”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press