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Definition: Shah |
ShahNoun1. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shah" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Shah Have you seen the Shah? A query implying a hoax, popular with street arabs when the Shah of Persia visited England. (1873.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Shah (from the Avestan word khshatra, meaning "king") is the Persian and Sanskrit term for a monarch and used by the former rulers of Persia (present-day Iran) as well as the rulers of the Persian Empire. The title roughly translates as Emperor in English as the monarch of Persia was technically the Emperor of the Persian Empire (later the Empire of Iran as Iran was officially known until 1979).
The last Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi officially adopted the title Shahanshah - literary King of Kings or Emperor during his coronation. He also styled his wife Shahbanou or Empress (previously the wife of the Iranian monarch was known as Malika or Queen).
The title was also used by Ottoman Turks to entitle a great hero or Emperor. Probably related to Russian Tsar. The English words check, checkmate and chess are all derived from Shah.
See also: Iranian monarchy
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shah."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Master | Ceasar, kaiser, czar, tsar, sultan, soldan, grand Turk, caliph, imaum, shah, padishah, sophi, mogul, great mogul, khan, lama, tycoon, mikado, tenno, inca, cazique; voivode; landamman; seyyid; Abuna, cacique, czarowitz, grand seignior. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Shah |
| English words defined with "shah": Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini ♦ Khomeini ♦ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi ♦ Padishah, Pahlavi, Pahlevi, peacock-throne ♦ Ruholla Khomeini ♦ Schah ♦ Taj Mahal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shah": DSM ♦ IMMODEST ♦ King of the World, Kingly Titles, Koh-i-Nur ♦ Nadir Shah ♦ Rakush, Royal Titles. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Shah" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (check, chequers, chess, shah), French (shah), Macedonian (chess), Manx (shah ), Romany (cabbage). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And that's just my husband Mrs. Shah! (East Is East; writing credit: Ayub Khan-Din) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Shah of Iran (1972) Koday Shah (1953) Shah Behram (1935) Shahala Shah (1925) Shah (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Kemal Atatürk, Ismet Inönü, and Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, with military officers, in Turkey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Pakistan | Parents reportedly have given children as offerings to Baba Shah Dola, a shrine in Punjab where the children reportedly are deformed intentionally by clamping a metal form on the head that induces microcephalitis. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Malaysia | For example, in Shah Alam, the Selangor state authorities have continued to block the construction of a Catholic Church. (references) |
Pakistan | On August 27, unknown assailants killed a Shi'a Muslim Deputy Superintendent of Police, Kausar Abbas Shah Gillani, in Bahawalpur, Punjab. (references) | |
Economic History | Iran | His son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, became Shah and ruled until 1979. (references) |
Iran | In January 1979, the Shah left Iran; he died abroad several years after. (references) | |
Iran | Mossadeq was opposed by the Shah and was removed, but he quickly returned to power. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | Shah was buried in Tral town. (references) |
Pakistan | Former Advisor for Sindh Affairs Ghous Ali Shah was released on bail on August 20 but remained under investigation for corruption. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Violence caused disruption to academic activities at Rajshahi University, Shah Jalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet, and Jahangirnagar University. (references) | |
Political Economy | Pakistan | This was followed by the removal of Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, an act that damaged the prestige and independence of the judiciary. (references) |
Afghanistan | Rabbani and his chief military commander, Ahmed Shah Masood, for most of the year, controlled the majority Tajik areas in the country's extreme northeast. (references) | |
Afghanistan | A process to convene a Loya Jirga, or Grand Assembly of traditional leaders, which focused on installing Rome-based former King Zahir Shah, continued to gather support but achieved no resolution. (references) | |
Political Rights | Afghanistan | Rabbani's support was based primarily in his Tajik ethnic group, with military support provided by the forces once commanded by the late Ahmed Shah Masood. (references) |
Women | Pakistan | In February 2000, Dr. Sher Shah Syed, of the Pakistan National Forum on Women's Health in Karachi, reported that the maternal mortality rate is 600 per 100,000 pregnancies; this figure contradicts the Government's figure of 300 per 100,000 pregnancies. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in others. There was once a man in Ispahan Ever and ever so long ago, And he had a head, the phrenologists said, That fitted him for a show. For his modesty's bump was so large a lump (Nature, they said, had taken a freak) That its summit stood far above the wood Of his hair, like a mountain peak. So modest a man in all Ispahan, Over and over again they swore -- So humble and meek, you would vainly seek; None ever was found before. Meantime the hump of that awful bump Into the heavens contrived to get To so great a height that they called the wight The man with the minaret. There wasn't a man in all Ispahan Prouder, or louder in praise of his chump: With a tireless tongue and a brazen lung He bragged of that beautiful bump Till the Shah in a rage sent a trusty page Bearing a sack and a bow-string too, And that gentle child explained as he smiled: "A little present for you." The saddest man in all Ispahan, Sniffed at the gift, yet accepted the same. "If I'd lived," said he, "my humility Had given me deathless fame!" Sukker Uffro |
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| "Shah" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.47% of the time. "Shah" is used about 489 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 93.47% | 458 | 12,792 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.53% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Total | 100.00% | 489 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "shah" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Shah | Last name | 6,000 | 2,194 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "shah": shah Jahan ♦ shah Nameh. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shah": shah-al-arhee. | |
Ending with "shah": anti-shah, pro-shah. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shah"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shah (check, chequers, chess). (various references) | |
Arabic | شاه إمبراطور إيران. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шах (check, chess), владетел (monarch, owner, possessor, potentate, ruler). (various references) | |
Czech | šach (check). (various references) | |
Dutch | sjah. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝaho. (various references) | |
Farsi | پادشاه (King, Monarch, Potentate, Rex, Rial). (various references) | |
Finnish | shaahi. (various references) | |
French | shah. (various references) | |
German | Schah. (various references) | |
Greek | σαχήσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sah. (various references) | |
Italian | sci . (various references) | |
Manx | shah. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ahshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | xá. (various references) | |
Romanian | şah (check, chess, padishah). (various references) | |
Russian | шах (check). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šah (chess, gambit). (various references) | |
Spanish | cha. (various references) | |
Swedish | schah. (various references) | |
Turkish | şah (check, king). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юa (king, merry). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шах. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sa (chiffon, gauze, gossamer, gossamery, tiffany, voile), vua Ba-tư. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old Persian | 600 BCE-300 BCE | kshayathiya. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shah": shahdom, shahdoms, shahs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "shah": padishah, padshah, parashah. (additional references) | |
Words containing "shah": padishahs, padshahs, parashahs. (additional references) | |
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"Shah" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahah, Ahaha, Dhah, Esha, Eshaq, mhuaih, Ohhhhh, saah, sah, sahha, sahu, s'akhu, Schiach, Schnath, sgah, sha, Shach, shaf, Shahr, shahr-i, shaht, shai, Shaihah, Shaihk, shaq, shaz, shchi, sheh, shekh, Shelhi, shh, shhh, Shiach, Shiah, shich, Shihab, shith, Shoah, shsa, Shuaghr, Shuhai, Siah, Siha, snah, Syha, tchah, Uhhuh, zah, Zschau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shah" (pronounced shÄ") |
| 2 | sh Ä" | Pasha, sha. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hahs, hash. | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-h-s" | |
-1 letter: ash, hah, has, sha, shh. | |
-2 letters: ah, as, ha, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-h-s" | |
+1 letter: hahas, harsh, shahs. | |
+2 letters: ephahs, hashed, hashes, haughs, heaths, horahs, khaphs, rehash, shaugh, sheath, shibah, shivah, thrash. | |
+3 letters: bushwah, chalahs, chalehs, chetahs, hadiths, hagbush, hagfish, haggish, hallahs, halvahs, hamzahs, harshen, harsher, harshly, hashing, hashish, hatches, hawkish, healths, hearths, heehaws, hogwash, hookahs, hoorahs, houdahs, howdahs, hurrahs, hushaby, huzzahs, jubhahs, khedahs, padshah, rhachis, rhaphes, shahdom, shantih, shaughs, sheathe, sheaths, shibahs, shivahs, shophar, whidahs, whydahs. | |
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