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šâh

šâh is the rare spelling of shah.

Meaning of shah

Noun (1)

shah (plural shahs)

  1. A king of Persia or Iran.
    • 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.2011 [1977 December 31], Jimmy Carter, White House Diary, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156
  2. A supreme ruler in some West Asian, Central Asian or South Asian nations.

Noun (2)

shah (plural shahs or shahy or shahiv)

  1. (historical) A Ukrainian monetary unit.

See all 4 meanings of shah

Forms of šâh

pluralšâhs

Questions about šâh

What is šâh the rare spelling of?
Šâh is the rare spelling of shah.

Words near šâh in the dictionary

  1. Štrigova
  2. Šukačka
  3. Šventoji
  4. Švenčionys
  5. Švenčionėliai
  6. šâh
  7. šâhs
  8. šāh
  9. šāhs
  10. ũ
  11. ū

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Adapted from Wiktionary: šâh (page history and authors); shah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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