different between shah vs shab

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Persian ???? (šâh), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (š?h), from Old Persian ???? (XŠ /xš?ya?iya/). Doublet of check. More at chess.

Alternative forms

• schah (archaic)
• šâh, š?h, sh?h, s?h??h (all rare)

Noun

shah (plural shahs)

1. A king of Persia or Iran.
2. A supreme ruler in some Middle Eastern or South Asian nations.

Usage notes

The wife of the last shah of Iran used the title shahbanu, which was translated as empress into English.

Derived terms

• shahdom

Related terms

• shahanshah
• shahi
• Shahmukhi

Translations

Etymology 2

From Ukrainian ??? (šah).

Noun

shah (plural shahs or shahy or shahiv)

1. (historical) A Ukrainian monetary unit.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hash, ahhs, hahs, hash

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (shâh), from Persian ???? (shâh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?a]

Noun

shah m

1. chess

French

Etymology

From Persian

Noun

shah m (plural shahs)

1. Alternative spelling of schah

Further reading

• “shah” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

South Slavey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ah/

Noun

shah

1. Fort Liard form of sah

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 37

Swedish

Etymology

From Persian ???? (š?h), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (š?h), from Old Persian ???? (xš?ya?iya).

Noun

shah c

1. a shah; a king of Persia

Declension

Related terms

• schack

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English shabbe, schabbe, from Old English s?eabb, from Proto-West Germanic *skabb, from Proto-Germanic *skabbaz. See scab.

Noun

shab (countable and uncountable, plural shabs)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Scabies.
2. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A scab.

Verb

shab (third-person singular simple present shabs, present participle shabbing, simple past and past participle shabbed)

1. (obsolete) To scratch; to rub.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Farquhar to this entry?)

Etymology 2

See scab.

Verb

shab (third-person singular simple present shabs, present participle shabbing, simple past and past participle shabbed)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To play mean tricks; to act shabbily.

Anagrams

• AHBs, Bahs, Bash, HABs, HBAs, Habs, bahs, bash, habs