• IPA^(key):/ʃɑː/

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• Rhymes:-ɑː

FromPersianشاه(šâh), fromMiddle Persian𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠(šāh), fromOld Persian𐏋(XŠ/⁠xšāyaθiya⁠/).Doublet ofcheck. More atchess.

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

shah (pluralshahs)

1. A king ofPersia orIran.
   • 2011 [1977 December 31],Jimmy Carter,White House Diary‎^[1],→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page156:

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

2. A supremeruler in someWest Asian,Central Asian orSouth Asian nations.

The wife of the lastshah ofIran used the titleshahbanu, which was translated asempress into English. His sons used the titleshahzada (shah's descendant), which was translated asprince into English.

• shahdom

• shahanshah
• shahbanu
• shahi
• Shahmukhi
• shahzada

FromUkrainianшаг(šah).

shah (pluralshahsorshahyorshahiv)

1. (historical) AUkrainian monetary unit.

• Hash,ahhs,hahs,hash

Borrowed fromOttoman Turkishشاه(shâh), fromPersianشاه(šâh).

• IPA^(key):[ʃah]

shah m (pluralshahë,definiteshahu,definite pluralshahët)

1. (uncountable)chess
2. check(as it pertains to a game of chess)
3. (also in theplural) aruler in someEastern 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

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2],1980
• “shah”, inFGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian),2006
• Mann,S. E. (1948) “shah”, inAn Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page467

FromPersian.

• IPA^(key):/ʃa/

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shah m (pluralshahs)

1. Alternative spelling ofschah

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

• IPA^(key):/ʃɑː/

shah m (definite singularshahen,indefinite pluralshahar,definite pluralshahane)

1. alternative spelling ofsjah

• “shah”, inNorsk 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 ofsah

• Keren Rice (1989)A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter,→ISBN, page37

FromPersianشاه(šâh), fromMiddle Persian𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠(šāh), fromOld Persian𐏋(xšāyaθiya).Doublet ofschack(“chess; check”).

• IPA^(key):/ɧɑː/

shah c

1. ashah; a king ofPersia

• schack