shah
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran.
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Persian شاه (šâh), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /xšāyaθiya/). Doublet of check. More at chess.
Alternative forms
Noun
shah (plural shahs)
- 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.
- A supreme ruler in some West Asian, Central Asian or South Asian nations.
Usage notes
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.
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Translations
king of Persia
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Etymology 2
Noun
shah (plural shahs or shahy or shahiv)
- (historical) A Ukrainian monetary unit.
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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شاه (shâh), from Persian شاه (šâh).
Pronunciation
Noun
shah m (plural shahë, definite shahu, definite plural shahët)
- (uncountable) chess
- check (as it pertains to a game of chess)
- (also in the plural) a ruler in some Eastern regions (Iran, etc.)
Adverb
shah
- straight, bipedally, upright
- bewildered, taken aback
- Synonym: shtang
- (figurative) alone, deserted
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Further reading
- “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
French
Etymology
From Persian.
Pronunciation
Noun
shah m (plural shahs)
- Alternative spelling of schah
Further reading
- “shah”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Noun
shah m (definite singular shahen, indefinite plural shahar, definite plural shahane)
- alternative spelling of sjah
References
- “shah”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
South Slavey
Pronunciation
Noun
shah (stem -zha-)
- Fort Liard form of sah
Inflection
Possessive inflection of shah (-zhaá)
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | sezhaá | naxezhaá | |
| 2nd person | nezhaá | ||
| 3rd person | 1) | — | gizhaá |
| 2) | mezhaá | gozhaá | |
| 4th person | yezhaá | ||
| reflexive | sp. | ɂedezhaá | kedezhaá |
| unsp. | dezhaá | ||
| reciprocal | — | ɂełezhaá | |
| indefinite | ɂezhaá | ||
| areal | gozhaá | ||
| 1) Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular. 2) Used when the previous condition does not apply. | |||
References
- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 37
Swedish
Etymology
From Persian شاه (šâh), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh), from Old Persian 𐏋 (xšāyaθiya). Doublet of schack (“chess; check”).
Pronunciation
Noun
shah c
Declension
| Declension of shah | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | shah | shahen | shaher | shaherna |
| Genitive | shahs | shahens | shahers | shahernas |