Shah

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A king of Persia or Iran.
3. A Ukrainian monetary unit.
   historical
4. Rare spelling of shah.
   alt-of, rare
5. A supreme ruler in some West Asian, Central Asian or South Asian nations.

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Examples

“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.”

“Along the frontiers of Khwārazm and the lower Syr Darya, where Jand was held by the shāhs, there lived a number⟳ of Türkmen, and even though many of them were still pagan, the Khwārazm-Shāhs had to achieve⟳ some sort⟳ of modus vivendi with them.”

“Abbās’s achievement made it possible for Ṣafawid rule⟳ to survive⟳ a succession of largely ineffective shāhs for a further century.”

“From the early fourth/tenth century, the Shāhs had their capital in Yazidiyya, perhaps the earlier Shammakhi, but they were also often to intervene in, and at times control⟳, Bāb al-Abwāb or Darband on the Caspian coast (see⟳ below, no. 68). Over the decades, the Shāhs had to fight⟳ off the Georgians to their west, and, in the fifth/eleventh century, incursions from northern Persia of the Turkmens. After the notable reign of Fariburz I b. Sallār, the chronology and nomenclature of the succeeding Shāhs become⟳ somewhat fragmentary and tentative, for the detailed source for the history of the earlier period, a local history of Sharwān and Bāb al-Abwāb preserved in a later Ottoman historian, comes to an end⟳; for subsequent rulers, we depend⟳ largely on literary references from the lands outside Sharwān and the evidence from coins.”

“She was beating a fighting retreat when the Shāh caught up to her with sixty men. When she saw⟳ the Shāh, she said, “May I be a sacrifice to you! I heard that they had captured you and taken you to the Solṭān, so I came out to fight⟳ to the death.””

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