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shāh

shāh 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 shāh

pluralshāhs

Questions about shāh

What is shāh the rare spelling of?
Shāh is the rare spelling of shah.

Words near shāh in the dictionary

  1. shystiest
  2. shysty
  3. shyt
  4. Shëngjin
  5. shíshálh
  6. shāh
  7. Shāhanshāh
  8. shāhs
  9. shāhzāda
  10. Shānxi
  11. Shīʻism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shāh (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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