shah

Etymology 1
From, from , from. . More at chess.

Noun



 * 1) A king of Persia or Iran.
 * 2) A supreme ruler in some West Asian, Central Asian or South Asian nations.
 * 1) A supreme ruler in some West Asian, Central Asian or South Asian nations.

Usage notes
The wife of the last shah of Iran used the title, which was translated as empress into English. His sons used the title (shah's descendant), which was translated as prince into English.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሻህ
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: şah
 * Bashkir: шаһ
 * Belarusian: шах
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: шах
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 沙赫
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: shah
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ŝaho
 * Estonian: šahh
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: შაჰი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: seá
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: シャー
 * Kazakh: шаһ
 * Korean: 샤
 * Kumyk: шагь
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: шах,
 * Latin: sachus
 * Latvian: šahs
 * Lezgi: шагь
 * Lithuanian: šachas
 * Macedonian: шах
 * Malay: syah
 * Middle Persian: 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sjah
 * Nynorsk: sjah
 * Odia:
 * Old Persian: 𐏋
 * Ottoman Turkish: شاه
 * Pashto: شاه
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: क्षयति
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ша̏х
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: šach
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: shah
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: ชาห์
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: şa
 * Ukrainian: шах
 * Urdu: شاہ
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, vua Ba Tư
 * Zazaki: şağ

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A Ukrainian monetary unit.

Translations

 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: шаг

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  chess
 * 2) check
 * 3)  a ruler in some Eastern regions (Iran, etc.)

Adverb

 * 1) straight, bipedally, upright
 * 2) bewildered, taken aback
 * 3)  alone, deserted
 * 1)  alone, deserted
 * 1)  alone, deserted

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) a ; a king of Persia