Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Used formerly as a title for the hereditary monarch of Iran.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Persian language, the ruler of a land, as either sovereign or vassal. The monarch of Persia (usually called
the Shah by English writers) is designated by the compound appellation of padishah.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A former title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia and Iran.
- noun A celebrated historical poem written by Firdousi, being the most ancient in the modern Persian language.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A king of
Persia . - noun A supreme
ruler in someMiddle Eastern or South Asian nations. - noun historical An Ukrainian monetary unit.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He was America's "shah"-and that has also been his undoing.
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The official national anthem of the shah was the "Imperial Salute of Iran."
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Friday June 19) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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It's hard to block out flashbacks of President Jimmy Carter's 1977 New Year's Eve statement that Iran under the shah was an island of stability in a troubled region - only months before that stability was shattered.
Could the next Mideast uprising happen in Saudi Arabia? 2011
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So is the revolution generation, those who remember the shah and hate the U.S. for it and with cause, you can say what you want about human rights in Iran today and you'd be right but the shah was a really evil kind of guy.
"Barack Obama extended the olive branch to Iran's leaders last Friday in a videotaped message praising a 'great civilization'..." Ann Althouse 2009
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The official national anthem of the shah was the "Imperial Salute of Iran."
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Friday June 19) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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There are allusions to Persia in Shakespeare cited here (the shah was the playwright's contemporary), and most notably there is a pair of small portraits of Robert Sherley and his Circassian wife, Teresia; Sherley, a British adventurer sent to Persia by Elizabeth I, ended up representing the shah on various foreign missions.
Contemporaries a World Apart Tom L. Freudenheim 2009
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A ruler with a broad international perspective, the shah was a subject of portraits by Indian Mughal and European artists.
Contemporaries a World Apart Tom L. Freudenheim 2009
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We may premise that the shah is the first sovereign who, as such, has become the guest of Switzerland since the meeting of the Council of Constance in the fifteenth century.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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There was an Indian by the name of Pet-cah-shah, which is their word for
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The shah, who was overthrown in 1979, was widely hated, and comparing a rival to the shah is a serious, though common, insult in Iranian politics.
asativum commented on the word shah
Said one scholar to the other: "One man's Mede is another man's Persian."
"Are you shah?" the other replied.
"Sultanly."
January 28, 2008
seanahan commented on the word shah
Groan.
January 28, 2008
trivet commented on the word shah
*whimper*
January 28, 2008
bilby commented on the word shah
Also schah.
December 15, 2015