шоҳ
Persian
/ʃɔːh/
regional
Definitions
- king
- shah
- king (chess)
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian شاه (king, shah, master, shh, big) derived from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (king) derived from Old Persian 𐏋 (king, ruler).
Origin
Old Persian
𐏋
Gloss
king, ruler
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
王
Emoji
👑 🦁
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- shah English
- scaccus Latin
- Schach German
- Schah German
- sjah Dutch, Flemish
- schah French
- шах Russian
- *tek- Proto-Indo-European
- sjah Norwegian Bokmål
- xá Portuguese
- shah Swedish
- sjah Norwegian Nynorsk
- skák Old Norse
- šach Czech
- شَاه Arabic
- مَقَدِيشُو Arabic
- eschés Old French
- xa Catalan, Valencian
- शाह Hindi
- خوارزمشاه Persian
- شاه Persian
- شاهانه Persian
- شاهزاده Persian
- شاهوار Persian
- شاهکار Persian
- شاهتوت Persian
- شاهدانه Persian
- مقعد Persian
- šahs Latvian
- shakar Ido
- şah Turkish
- syah Malay
- schāch Middle High German
- шаһ Kazakh
- şah Azerbaijani
- אחשורוש Hebrew (modern)
- חשיארש Hebrew (modern)
- شاه Ottoman Turkish
- 沙赫 Chinese
- 沙阿 Chinese
- *ksayati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *kšáyati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- šach Slovak
- شاھ Uighur, Uyghur
- 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 Middle Persian
- 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩 Middle Persian
- חשיארש Aramaic
- *xšáyati Proto-Iranian
- Shohjahon Uzbek
- 𐏋 Old Persian
- шагь Kumyk
- şa Turkmen