shah
/ʃɑː/
shah noun: a king of Persia or Iran.
Noun (1)
shah (plural shahs)
- 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
- A supreme ruler in some West Asian, Central Asian or South Asian nations.
Noun (2)
shah (plural shahs or shahy or shahiv)
- A Ukrainian monetary unit.
Proper noun capitalized: Shah
Shah (plural Shahs)
- A surname.
shah meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
shah in Hindi
- king of Persia
- शाह śāh
shah in Tamil
- ஷா, ஷாஹ்
shah in Marathi
- shah
- शहा śahā
shah in Urdu
- king of Persia
- شاہ śāh
More languagesFewer languages
- shah in Bengali
- শাহ śah
- shah in Telugu
- షా, షాహ్
- shah in Malayalam
- ഷാ, ഷാഹ്
- shah in Kannada
- ಶಾ, ಷಾ
- shah in Punjabi
- شاہ śāh
- shah in Gujarati
- શાહ śāh
- shah in Odia
- ଶାହା śāhā
- shah in Sanskrit
- क्षयति kṣayati
- shah in Nepali
- शाह śāha
- shah in Pashto
- شاه šāh
- shah in Arabic
- شَاه šāh
- shah in Malay
- syah
- shah in Indonesian
- syah
- shah in Thai
- ชาห์ chaa
- shah in Vietnamese
- sa, vua Ba Tư
- shah in Myanmar
- ရှား hra:
Forms of shah
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | shahs |
| alternative form | šâh |
| alternative form | šāh |
| alternative form | shāh |
| alternative form | s̲h̲āh |
| plural | shahy |
| plural | shahiv |
| alternative form (archaic) | schah |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Shahs |
Origin of shah
Borrowed from Persian شاه (šâh), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /xšāyaθiya/). Doublet of check. More at chess.
Borrowed from Ukrainian шаг (šah).
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Persian شاه (“shah, king”), a Persian surname which is widespread in Iran and in the subcontinent. * Borrowed from Gujarati સાહ (sāh, “merchant”), an occupational surname from Sanskrit साधु (sādhu, “merchant; jeweller; money-lender”).
Words formed from shah
Phrases with shah
Words that rhyme with shah
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- Moskva
- Nansha
- rah
- shikar
- ah
- aha
- alhamdulillah
- Amapá
- Benoit
- Bogotá
- fa
- galah
- goombah
- huzzah
- inshallah
- Jah
- la
- lah-di-dah
- ma
- moire
- mudra
- ménage à trois
- na
- omertà
- ooh la la
- pa
- schwa
- Shangri-La
- sis boom bah
- ta
- wah
- Xisha
- 'za
- allah
- ar
- arthra
- Aymara
- baa
- bah
- Bogota
- boyar
- bra
- cha
- cha cha cha
- chamar
- che sara sara
- chicken paw
- da
Questions about shah
- What does shah mean?
- Shah means a king of Persia or Iran.
- What is shah in Hindi?
- Shah in Hindi is शाह (śāh). See Shah meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is shah?
- Shah can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce shah?
- Shah is pronounced /ʃɑː/.
- What is the plural of shah?
- The plural of shah is shahs.
Words near shah in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shah (page history and authors); Shah (page history and authors); shah (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); शहा (Marathi) (page history and authors); shah (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shah (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shah (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); شاہ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); શાહ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); शाह (Nepali) (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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