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shaikha

shaikha is the alternative form of sheikha.

Meaning of sheikha

Noun

sheikha (plural sheikhas)

  1. A female sheikh.
    • Plus, Umm Waraqah was never explicitly forbidden to lead a mixed congregation. Wadud is now among a growing number of scholars, jurists, sheikhas, imamahs, and ordinary Muslim women pressing for the powers of religious authority.2012, Robin Wright, Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World

Forms of shaikha

pluralshaikhas

Questions about shaikha

What is shaikha the alternative form of?
Shaikha is the alternative form of sheikha.

Words near shaikha in the dictionary

  1. shaikdom
  2. shaikdoms
  3. shaikh
  4. shaikh al-Islam
  5. shaikh ul-Islam
  6. shaikha
  7. shaikhas
  8. shaikhdom
  9. shaikhdoms
  10. Shaikhi
  11. Shaikhis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shaikha (page history and authors); sheikha (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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