shah

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

From Persian شاه (šâh), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /⁠xšāyaθiya⁠/). Doublet of check. More at chess.

• schah (archaic)
• šâh, šāh, shāh, s̲h̲āh (all rare)

shah (plural shahs)

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran.

1. A king of Persia or Iran.
   • 2011 [1977 December 31], Jimmy Carter, White House Diary‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156:

     We had a cordial welcome in Tehran from the shah and Empress Farah, a delightful banquet, and adequate time to discuss the Middle East and nuclear power affairs with the shah.

2. A supreme ruler in some West Asian, Central Asian or South Asian nations.

The wife of the last shah of Iran used the title shahbanu, which was translated as empress into English. His sons used the title shahzada (shah's descendant), which was translated as prince into English.

• shahdom

• shahanshah
• shahbanu
• shahi
• Shahmukhi
• shahzada

From Ukrainian шаг (šah).

shah (plural shahs or shahy or shahiv)

1. (historical) A Ukrainian monetary unit.

• Hash, ahhs, hahs, hash

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شاه (shâh), from Persian شاه (šâh).

• IPA^(key): [ʃah]

shah m (plural shahë, definite shahu, definite plural shahët)

1. (uncountable) chess
2. check (as it pertains to a game of chess)
3. (also in the plural) a ruler in some Eastern regions (Iran, etc.)

shah

1. straight, bipedally, upright

   Synonyms: arithi, qirithi, shahthi

2. bewildered, taken aback

   Synonym: shtang

3. (figurative) alone, deserted

   Synonyms: vetëm, shkretë

• “shah”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
• “shah”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “shah”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 467

From Persian.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa/

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shah m (plural shahs)

1. Alternative spelling of schah

• “shah”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑː/

shah m (definite singular shahen, indefinite plural shahar, definite plural shahane)

1. alternative spelling of sjah

• “shah”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

• IPA^(key): [ʃà(h)]
• Hyphenation: shah

shah (stem -zha-)

1. Fort Liard form of sah

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 37

From Persian شاه (šâh), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh), from Old Persian 𐏋 (xšāyaθiya). Doublet of schack (“chess; check”).

• IPA^(key): /ɧɑː/

shah c

1. a shah; a king of Persia

• schack