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English
Noun
shāh (plural shāhs)
- Rare spelling of shah.
1968, “Khurāsān and the Khwārazm-Shāhs”, in The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 191:Along the frontiers of Khwārazm and the lower Syr Darya, where Jand was held by the shāhs, there lived a number of Türkmen, and even though many of them were still pagan, the Khwārazm-Shāhs had to achieve some sort of modus vivendi with them.
1988, David Morgan, Medieval Persia, 1040–1797, Longman Group UK, →ISBN:Abbās’s achievement made it possible for Ṣafawid rule to survive a succession of largely ineffective shāhs for a further century.
1996, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, published 2012, →ISBN:From the early fourth/tenth century, the Shāhs had their capital in Yazidiyya, perhaps the earlier Shammakhi, but they were also often to intervene in, and at times control, Bāb al-Abwāb or Darband on the Caspian coast (see below, no. 68). Over the decades, the Shāhs had to fight off the Georgians to their west, and, in the fifth/eleventh century, incursions from northern Persia of the Turkmens. After the notable reign of Fariburz I b. Sallār, the chronology and nomenclature of the succeeding Shāhs become somewhat fragmentary and tentative, for the detailed source for the history of the earlier period, a local history of Sharwān and Bāb al-Abwāb preserved in a later Ottoman historian, comes to an end; for subsequent rulers, we depend largely on literary references from the lands outside Sharwān and the evidence from coins.
2018, “Solṭān Salim Comes to Iran”, in Barry Wood, editor, transl., The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil: A Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance, Brill, →ISBN, page 393:She was beating a fighting retreat when the Shāh caught up to her with sixty men. When she saw the Shāh, she said, “May I be a sacrifice to you! I heard that they had captured you and taken you to the Solṭān, so I came out to fight to the death.”
Anagrams
Khiamniungan Naga
Pronunciation
Verb
shāh
- (Patsho) To spin something around especially holding in a hand.