shah
IPA: ʃˈɑ
noun
- A king of Persia or Iran.
- A supreme ruler in some West Asian, Central Asian or South Asian nations.
- (historical) A Ukrainian monetary unit.
- A surname.
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Examples of "shah" in Sentences
- Shah Jahan was a stingy, usurious monarch.
- Mr. Sanjay Shah is the incharge doctor at the dispensary.
- He was America's "shah"-and that has also been his undoing.
- The Taliqan and Alamut rivers conjoin to form the Shah River.
- The Hindu victory weakened the power and prestige of the Adil Shah.
- Mian Shah Din was one of the members of the Simla Deputation in 1906.
- The anthem is a chronicle of the exploits of the Shah and his dynasty.
- Reza Shah was an autocrat who believed in the supremacy of Persian race.
- There was an Indian by the name of Pet-cah-shah, which is their word for
- The resort was completed in 1976 shortly before the overthrow of the Shah.
- The decline was accelerated by the invasion of India by Nadir Shah in 1739.
- The official national anthem of the shah was the "Imperial Salute of Iran."
- His father was by the way prime minister during the dictatorship of the shah.
- A ruler with a broad international perspective, the shah was a subject of portraits by Indian Mughal and European artists.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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